Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Apr 14 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 1227ms 3.5ms 55.0MB 1207ms 7ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2353ms 1.9ms 39.8MB 5253ms 37ms go 1.24.2
lua 1.lua 3698ms 5.1ms 172.9MB 3550ms 133ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 105.0MB 4950ms 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 1.4ms 5.6MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 209ms 2.4ms 8.1MB 370ms 10ms go 1.24.2
lua 1.lua 305ms 9.6ms 15.8MB 283ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 819ms 2.0ms 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 0.9ms 0.0ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.2
lua 1.lua 1.7ms 0.3ms 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 815ms 44ms 63.2MB 797ms 7ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 1122ms 7.5ms 54.9MB 1103ms 7ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 1448ms 9.5ms 38.9MB 3070ms 33ms go 1.24.2
go 2-m.go 1677ms 13ms 43.0MB 3693ms 33ms go 1.24.2
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4947ms 37ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4937ms 50ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 176ms 3.7ms 9.8MB 163ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 207ms 2.5ms 17.1MB 190ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 331ms 5.3ms 14.0MB 663ms 20ms go 1.24.2
go 2-m.go 373ms 0.8ms 13.9MB 783ms 23ms go 1.24.2
lua 1.lua 1626ms 22ms 31.1MB 1600ms 13ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2403ms 68ms 28.8MB 2380ms 10ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 348ms 0.6ms 3.5MB 340ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 1.go 351ms 5.8ms 0.4MB 343ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
lua 4.lua 711ms 0.5ms 2.4MB 700ms 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 37ms 0.7ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 39ms 0.7ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.2
lua 4.lua 75ms 2.0ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1133ms 38ms 2.3MB 1123ms 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 1911ms 19ms 5.4MB 7407ms 10ms go 1.24.2
go 1.go 3650ms 0.9ms 5.6MB 3640ms 3ms go 1.24.2
lua 1.lua 4064ms 3.3ms 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 2.4MB 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 481ms 0.8ms 5.5MB 1843ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 1.go 921ms 11ms 3.5MB 913ms 0ms go 1.24.2
lua 1.lua 1022ms 2.6ms 2.4MB 1013ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 1397ms 1.5ms 0.5MB 1390ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 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 126ms 0.6ms 5.5MB 450ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 1.go 235ms 5.5ms 3.5MB 223ms 0ms go 1.24.2
lua 1.lua 260ms 3.0ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 352ms 1.2ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7