Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS C# benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jun 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 901ms 14ms 197.1MB 893ms 147ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 1061ms 140ms 164.4MB 963ms 127ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 1725ms 105ms 103.6MB 1900ms 227ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua 3411ms 55ms 172.9MB 3287ms 110ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4947ms 37ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 1.cs 141ms 1.3ms 46.1MB 120ms 10ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 175ms 44ms 31.8MB 100ms 33ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 191ms 4.8ms 49.7MB 147ms 37ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 1.lua 287ms 0.8ms 15.8MB 267ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 818ms 12ms 16.9MB 803ms 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 1.3ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 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 7.8ms 2.1ms 9.5MB 0ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 30ms 0.5ms 21.7MB 18ms 2ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 34ms 1.1ms 26.1MB 20ms 2ms dotnet 9.0.300

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 2.cs 525ms 14ms 120.6MB 483ms 83ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 577ms 8.1ms 144.9MB 530ms 113ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 2.cs 666ms 14ms 136.1MB 620ms 100ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 749ms 4.3ms 166.8MB 690ms 137ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 1280ms 4.1ms 144.6MB 1447ms 180ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4947ms 37ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4927ms 57ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 2.cs 127ms 4.7ms 57.1MB 100ms 30ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 154ms 5.1ms 74.8MB 123ms 50ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 2.cs 262ms 8.0ms 75.8MB 220ms 43ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 264ms 2.4ms 69.4MB 240ms 33ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 276ms 3.6ms 93.0MB 247ms 53ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 1.lua 1103ms 2.6ms 31.0MB 1073ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2131ms 17ms 28.6MB 2113ms 7ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 9.cs 360ms 3.8ms 27.9MB 340ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 8.cs 370ms 3.3ms 9.9MB 360ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 8.cs 419ms 1.1ms 27.6MB 400ms 3ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 4.lua 713ms 2.3ms 2.3MB 707ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 8.cs 1252ms 4.8ms 22.3MB 1237ms 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 44ms 0.2ms 9.9MB 30ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
lua 4.lua 75ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 9.cs 93ms 3.0ms 27.6MB 73ms 7ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 8.cs 95ms 2.3ms 27.6MB 77ms 3ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 8.cs 161ms 0.7ms 22.4MB 147ms 0ms mono 6.12.0
lua 4.lua 1123ms 35ms 2.3MB 1117ms 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 1881ms 41ms 10.4MB 7243ms 7ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 3-m.cs 1938ms 34ms 29.9MB 7323ms 20ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 1.lua 4062ms 9.7ms 2.5MB 4053ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 4838ms 168ms 25.5MB 18427ms 13ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.5MB 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 475ms 1.3ms 10.5MB 1813ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 3-m.cs 529ms 1.2ms 30.0MB 1873ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 1.lua 1019ms 1.0ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 1200ms 10ms 26.7MB 4517ms 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 129ms 0.6ms 10.6MB 447ms 10ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 3-m.cs 179ms 3.3ms 28.4MB 497ms 17ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 1.lua 259ms 2.2ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 341ms 6.9ms 25.5MB 1153ms 7ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7