Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS C++ benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Jan 22 2025, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][4 cores] AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor (Model 1)

* -m in a file name stands for multi-threading or multi-processing

* -i in a file name stands for direct intrinsics usage. (Usage of simd intrinsics via libraries is not counted)

* -ffi in a file name stands for non-stdlib FFI usage

* (You may find time < time(user) + time(sys) for some non-parallelized programs, the overhead is from GC or JIT compiler, which are allowed to take advantage of multi-cores as that's more close to real-world scenarios.)

binarytrees

Input: 18

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 3542ms 27ms 172.9MB 3407ms 117ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4943ms 40ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 291ms 1.8ms 15.8MB 267ms 3ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 819ms 1.8ms 16.9MB 803ms 7ms lua 5.4.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 1.cpp 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 0ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.8ms 0.4ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.5MB 4940ms 47ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4933ms 47ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1152ms 5.2ms 31.1MB 1120ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2299ms 31ms 28.6MB 2263ms 20ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 0-i.cpp 166ms 0.1ms 1.5MB 160ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 0-i.cpp 170ms 0.6ms 2.3MB 160ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 313ms 1.7ms 1.8MB 303ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 313ms 1.0ms 2.3MB 300ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
lua 4.lua 725ms 27ms 2.3MB 717ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 0-i.cpp 19ms 0.1ms 1.5MB 10ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 0-i.cpp 19ms 0.2ms 2.3MB 10ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 34ms 0.6ms 2.3MB 27ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 34ms 0.8ms 1.8MB 23ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
lua 4.lua 74ms 1.2ms 2.3MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1103ms 17ms 2.3MB 1090ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 471ms 6.8ms 7.6MB 1820ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 488ms 8.2ms 4.2MB 1883ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 920ms 3.4ms 7.4MB 3587ms 7ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 925ms 1.0ms 4.2MB 3613ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
lua 1.lua 4060ms 12ms 2.5MB 4047ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.5MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 129ms 6.4ms 7.4MB 460ms 3ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 129ms 0.3ms 4.1MB 477ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 244ms 4.5ms 4.2MB 917ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 246ms 5.8ms 7.3MB 917ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
lua 1.lua 1017ms 2.5ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 40ms 1.9ms 7.4MB 110ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 40ms 0.7ms 4.0MB 127ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 67ms 0.7ms 7.1MB 227ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 68ms 0.6ms 4.0MB 240ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
lua 1.lua 257ms 0.2ms 2.3MB 247ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.7