Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS D benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon May 19 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
d 1.d 1782ms 3.3ms 312.5MB 1753ms 37ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 3057ms 15ms 314.4MB 3227ms 60ms dmd 2.111.0
lua 1.lua 3557ms 39ms 172.9MB 3410ms 133ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4953ms 37ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 167ms 2.7ms 207.7MB 140ms 13ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 262ms 1.0ms 210.5MB 233ms 17ms dmd 2.111.0
lua 1.lua 292ms 2.5ms 15.8MB 270ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 818ms 6.5ms 17.0MB 800ms 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 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
d 1.d 1.7ms 0.1ms 2.9MB 0ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 1.9ms 0.1ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 968ms 7.6ms 312.4MB 933ms 40ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 1870ms 35ms 314.3MB 2007ms 47ms dmd 2.111.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4950ms 33ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4930ms 57ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 199ms 1.4ms 312.5MB 160ms 30ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 360ms 4.0ms 314.8MB 323ms 33ms dmd 2.111.0
lua 1.lua 1219ms 43ms 31.1MB 1187ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2203ms 7.2ms 28.6MB 2187ms 7ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 2.d 360ms 0.1ms 2.9MB 350ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 360ms 0.6ms 2.9MB 350ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 680ms 2.4ms 4.8MB 670ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
lua 4.lua 714ms 3.6ms 2.3MB 703ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
d 2.d 2035ms 5.7ms 4.6MB 2023ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
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
d 1.d 38ms 0.1ms 2.9MB 30ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 2.d 39ms 0.6ms 2.9MB 30ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 72ms 1.0ms 4.8MB 60ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
lua 4.lua 75ms 1.4ms 2.4MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
d 2.d 208ms 2.5ms 4.8MB 197ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
lua 4.lua 1124ms 44ms 2.3MB 1113ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 3596ms 3.2ms 3.9MB 3583ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 3660ms 2.7ms 6.0MB 3650ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
lua 1.lua 4074ms 26ms 2.5MB 4067ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
d 1.d 902ms 2.2ms 3.5MB 890ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 926ms 1.0ms 7.9MB 917ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
lua 1.lua 1025ms 6.0ms 2.4MB 1013ms 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
d 1.d 228ms 0.6ms 3.1MB 220ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 234ms 1.2ms 4.9MB 223ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
lua 1.lua 259ms 1.6ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7