Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Go 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
go 1.go 1928ms 4.1ms 51.9MB 1907ms 7ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1-m.go 2394ms 16ms 46.3MB 5317ms 47ms go 1.24.4
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
go 1.go 150ms 1.6ms 5.0MB 140ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1-m.go 209ms 0.3ms 8.0MB 367ms 13ms go 1.24.4
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
go 1.go 0.7ms 0.0ms 0.3MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
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
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.0ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.4

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 1100ms 7.0ms 35.5MB 1080ms 7ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 2.go 1430ms 21ms 51.9MB 1407ms 7ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1-m.go 1489ms 1.4ms 49.0MB 3160ms 40ms go 1.24.4
go 2-m.go 1716ms 9.3ms 43.0MB 3753ms 40ms go 1.24.4
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
go 1.go 220ms 9.6ms 11.6MB 207ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 2.go 293ms 9.9ms 15.4MB 280ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1-m.go 335ms 1.4ms 12.1MB 673ms 23ms go 1.24.4
go 2-m.go 376ms 1.7ms 13.9MB 793ms 20ms go 1.24.4
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
go 1.go 352ms 3.6ms 3.5MB 343ms 0ms go 1.24.4
go 1.go 352ms 7.5ms 0.3MB 343ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
lua 4.lua 715ms 1.4ms 2.4MB 710ms 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 1.4ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.4
go 1.go 39ms 1.1ms 0.3MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
lua 4.lua 81ms 9.6ms 2.3MB 73ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
go 4-m.go 1900ms 1.2ms 5.5MB 7423ms 7ms go 1.24.4
go 1.go 3659ms 14ms 5.5MB 3650ms 3ms go 1.24.4
lua 1.lua 4063ms 3.7ms 2.5MB 4053ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go timeout 0.0ms 0.5MB 4990ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
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
go 4-m.go 480ms 0.2ms 5.6MB 1843ms 0ms go 1.24.4
go 1.go 921ms 7.0ms 3.5MB 913ms 0ms go 1.24.4
lua 1.lua 1020ms 2.2ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 1398ms 2.9ms 0.4MB 1390ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
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 1.2ms 5.5MB 450ms 0ms go 1.24.4
go 1.go 232ms 0.1ms 3.5MB 220ms 0ms go 1.24.4
lua 1.lua 258ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 351ms 0.6ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7