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
csharp 1.cs 912ms 14ms 187.1MB 903ms 140ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
csharp 1.cs 964ms 9.3ms 206.6MB 947ms 153ms dotnet 9.0.102
csharp 1.cs 1752ms 85ms 103.6MB 1933ms 253ms mono 6.12.0
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
csharp 1.cs 117ms 2.5ms 41.9MB 80ms 30ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
csharp 1.cs 151ms 2.8ms 46.3MB 127ms 10ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 204ms 17ms 64.6MB 153ms 37ms dotnet 9.0.102
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
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
csharp 1.cs 18ms 10ms 12.5MB 0ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
csharp 1.cs 31ms 0.2ms 23.3MB 22ms 0ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 35ms 0.3ms 30.3MB 16ms 4ms dotnet 9.0.102

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 2.cs 540ms 17ms 126.2MB 480ms 90ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
csharp 1.cs 585ms 1.6ms 153.7MB 523ms 133ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
csharp 2.cs 687ms 11ms 142.9MB 637ms 97ms dotnet 9.0.102
csharp 1.cs 740ms 30ms 169.4MB 690ms 120ms dotnet 9.0.102
csharp 1.cs 1320ms 56ms 146.4MB 1527ms 183ms mono 6.12.0
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
csharp 2.cs 135ms 1.9ms 64.0MB 103ms 33ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
csharp 1.cs 153ms 2.5ms 80.5MB 120ms 43ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
csharp 1.cs 260ms 7.3ms 69.5MB 233ms 33ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 2.cs 263ms 7.3ms 82.8MB 210ms 47ms dotnet 9.0.102
csharp 1.cs 288ms 18ms 99.0MB 240ms 50ms dotnet 9.0.102
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
csharp 9.cs 360ms 2.4ms 34.2MB 340ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.102
csharp 8.cs 370ms 0.4ms 15.7MB 357ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
csharp 8.cs 418ms 0.9ms 33.8MB 393ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.102
lua 4.lua 725ms 27ms 2.3MB 717ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 8.cs 1246ms 5.3ms 22.4MB 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 1.7ms 16.0MB 30ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
lua 4.lua 74ms 1.2ms 2.3MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 9.cs 92ms 1.1ms 34.0MB 77ms 0ms dotnet 9.0.102
csharp 8.cs 105ms 9.8ms 34.0MB 73ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.102
csharp 8.cs 162ms 2.1ms 26.3MB 147ms 3ms mono 6.12.0
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
csharp 3-m.cs 1873ms 37ms 18.4MB 7180ms 7ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
csharp 3-m.cs 1971ms 75ms 38.1MB 7220ms 13ms dotnet 9.0.102
lua 1.lua 4060ms 12ms 2.5MB 4047ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 4634ms 249ms 30.7MB 17543ms 10ms mono 6.12.0
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
csharp 3-m.cs 476ms 1.6ms 18.2MB 1790ms 10ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
csharp 3-m.cs 542ms 12ms 39.9MB 1870ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.102
lua 1.lua 1017ms 2.5ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 1203ms 18ms 31.0MB 4483ms 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 1.0ms 18.4MB 440ms 7ms dotnet/aot 9.0.102
csharp 3-m.cs 193ms 15ms 36.4MB 497ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.102
lua 1.lua 257ms 0.2ms 2.3MB 247ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 348ms 2.4ms 26.4MB 1160ms 7ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.7