Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS C# benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Jul 01 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
csharp 1.cs 987ms 1.3ms 197.6MB 1000ms 140ms dotnet 9.0.301
csharp 1.cs 1008ms 13ms 179.9MB 1017ms 137ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
csharp 1.cs 1685ms 31ms 103.5MB 1857ms 217ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua 3562ms 89ms 173.0MB 3437ms 113ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 105.0MB 4953ms 37ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 1.cs 122ms 5.7ms 36.6MB 90ms 30ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
csharp 1.cs 142ms 0.8ms 41.9MB 120ms 13ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 203ms 6.4ms 50.0MB 157ms 33ms dotnet 9.0.301
lua 1.lua 289ms 0.8ms 15.8MB 260ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 828ms 3.7ms 16.9MB 810ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.1ms 2.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.2ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 1.cs 6.3ms 0.3ms 8.3MB 0ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
csharp 1.cs 32ms 1.0ms 21.2MB 20ms 0ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 38ms 1.2ms 26.3MB 20ms 4ms dotnet 9.0.301

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 2.cs 551ms 10ms 119.2MB 507ms 87ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
csharp 1.cs 630ms 2.9ms 147.3MB 580ms 127ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
csharp 2.cs 714ms 12ms 136.7MB 647ms 93ms dotnet 9.0.301
csharp 1.cs 753ms 7.5ms 167.4MB 700ms 133ms dotnet 9.0.301
csharp 1.cs 1373ms 35ms 139.5MB 1567ms 183ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4950ms 40ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4923ms 60ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 2.cs 139ms 5.9ms 57.8MB 110ms 33ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
csharp 1.cs 163ms 8.0ms 72.7MB 123ms 50ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
csharp 2.cs 267ms 8.1ms 75.7MB 220ms 40ms dotnet 9.0.301
csharp 1.cs 276ms 1.5ms 89.7MB 243ms 53ms dotnet 9.0.301
csharp 1.cs 277ms 2.7ms 69.5MB 250ms 37ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua 1431ms 31ms 31.3MB 1400ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2403ms 38ms 28.8MB 2383ms 3ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 9.cs 365ms 5.3ms 27.6MB 343ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.301
csharp 8.cs 373ms 3.5ms 9.8MB 360ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
csharp 8.cs 425ms 6.0ms 27.6MB 410ms 7ms dotnet 9.0.301
lua 4.lua 715ms 1.4ms 2.4MB 710ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 8.cs 1248ms 2.0ms 20.3MB 1230ms 0ms mono 6.12.0
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
csharp 8.cs 46ms 1.5ms 9.9MB 30ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
lua 4.lua 81ms 9.6ms 2.3MB 73ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 8.cs 97ms 3.2ms 27.5MB 77ms 7ms dotnet 9.0.301
csharp 9.cs 99ms 5.9ms 27.9MB 73ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.301
csharp 8.cs 168ms 3.1ms 22.4MB 153ms 0ms mono 6.12.0
lua 4.lua 1148ms 64ms 2.3MB 1137ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 3-m.cs 1871ms 1.6ms 10.5MB 7320ms 3ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
csharp 3-m.cs 1923ms 1.9ms 30.0MB 7370ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.301
lua 1.lua 4063ms 3.7ms 2.5MB 4053ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 4682ms 158ms 27.7MB 17883ms 23ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.4MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 3-m.cs 488ms 17ms 10.5MB 1800ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
csharp 3-m.cs 632ms 70ms 29.9MB 1737ms 20ms dotnet 9.0.301
lua 1.lua 1020ms 2.2ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 1186ms 38ms 25.3MB 4467ms 7ms mono 6.12.0
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
csharp 3-m.cs 136ms 11ms 10.5MB 447ms 7ms dotnet/aot 9.0.301
csharp 3-m.cs 252ms 16ms 28.8MB 463ms 13ms dotnet 9.0.301
lua 1.lua 258ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 345ms 3.8ms 27.6MB 1160ms 10ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7