Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Mar 25 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 1269ms 2.1ms 54.9MB 1247ms 7ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2414ms 64ms 46.3MB 5500ms 40ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 3609ms 57ms 172.8MB 3463ms 133ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4947ms 40ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 117ms 2.2ms 5.6MB 107ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 211ms 1.3ms 7.9MB 373ms 10ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 296ms 4.6ms 15.6MB 273ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 822ms 9.4ms 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 0.9ms 0.1ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.3ms 0.7ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 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 886ms 4.8ms 63.1MB 863ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 1140ms 2.7ms 55.0MB 1113ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 1477ms 1.1ms 45.0MB 3100ms 50ms go 1.24.1
go 2-m.go 1708ms 9.0ms 40.9MB 3773ms 33ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.5MB 4950ms 33ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4927ms 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 175ms 2.5ms 9.8MB 160ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 209ms 3.5ms 17.1MB 193ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 343ms 10ms 12.3MB 687ms 17ms go 1.24.1
go 2-m.go 376ms 1.3ms 14.0MB 800ms 27ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 1193ms 7.0ms 31.3MB 1163ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2269ms 74ms 28.6MB 2247ms 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 350ms 2.9ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 352ms 2.1ms 3.5MB 343ms 0ms go 1.24.1
lua 4.lua 717ms 7.0ms 2.3MB 703ms 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 0.8ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 39ms 1.2ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.1
lua 4.lua 77ms 2.5ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1108ms 50ms 2.3MB 1100ms 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 14ms 5.4MB 7403ms 3ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 3659ms 17ms 5.5MB 3650ms 3ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 4066ms 6.0ms 2.5MB 4057ms 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 0.7ms 5.5MB 1840ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 916ms 2.1ms 3.5MB 907ms 0ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 1030ms 16ms 2.4MB 1020ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 1397ms 0.6ms 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 0.9ms 5.6MB 457ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 232ms 1.7ms 3.5MB 223ms 0ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 261ms 2.6ms 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 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7