Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Go 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
go 1.go 1201ms 11ms 55.0MB 1180ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2364ms 13ms 41.9MB 5290ms 33ms go 1.24.3
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
go 1.go 113ms 2.0ms 5.6MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 209ms 2.8ms 8.1MB 367ms 10ms go 1.24.3
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
go 1.go 0.8ms 0.1ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
lua 1.lua 1.3ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
go 1.go 1.4ms 0.0ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.3
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.2ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 877ms 10ms 63.2MB 857ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 1100ms 11ms 55.0MB 1080ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 1481ms 35ms 41.1MB 3197ms 37ms go 1.24.3
go 2-m.go 1665ms 17ms 43.1MB 3667ms 40ms go 1.24.3
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
go 1.go 173ms 0.8ms 9.8MB 160ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 205ms 6.1ms 17.1MB 190ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 333ms 1.3ms 12.2MB 673ms 23ms go 1.24.3
go 2-m.go 373ms 2.6ms 13.9MB 797ms 23ms go 1.24.3
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
go 1.go 347ms 4.4ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 351ms 3.3ms 3.5MB 343ms 0ms go 1.24.3
lua 4.lua 713ms 2.3ms 2.3MB 707ms 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
go 1.go 38ms 1.2ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 38ms 0.5ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.3
lua 4.lua 75ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
go 4-m.go 1909ms 15ms 5.6MB 7397ms 7ms go 1.24.3
go 1.go 3690ms 9.5ms 5.6MB 3687ms 0ms go 1.24.3
lua 1.lua 4062ms 9.7ms 2.5MB 4053ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go timeout 0.0ms 0.5MB 4990ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
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
go 4-m.go 481ms 1.5ms 5.5MB 1840ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 1.go 929ms 22ms 3.5MB 923ms 0ms go 1.24.3
lua 1.lua 1019ms 1.0ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 1397ms 0.5ms 0.5MB 1390ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
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
go 4-m.go 125ms 0.3ms 5.5MB 453ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 1.go 231ms 0.6ms 3.5MB 220ms 0ms go 1.24.3
lua 1.lua 259ms 2.2ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 351ms 0.3ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7