Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Go 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
go 1.go 1249ms 9.0ms 55.0MB 1227ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2386ms 8.7ms 41.6MB 5307ms 40ms go 1.24.3
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
go 1.go 113ms 1.7ms 5.6MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 210ms 2.2ms 8.1MB 370ms 10ms go 1.24.3
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
go 1.go 0.8ms 0.0ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.4ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.3
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

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 820ms 45ms 63.1MB 800ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 1144ms 3.1ms 55.0MB 1120ms 3ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 1485ms 22ms 40.9MB 3127ms 40ms go 1.24.3
go 2-m.go 1732ms 20ms 47.1MB 3760ms 50ms go 1.24.3
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
go 1.go 174ms 2.9ms 9.8MB 160ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 213ms 5.6ms 17.2MB 197ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 334ms 1.2ms 12.1MB 667ms 27ms go 1.24.3
go 2-m.go 375ms 1.6ms 13.9MB 780ms 33ms go 1.24.3
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
go 1.go 349ms 0.2ms 3.5MB 340ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 1.go 353ms 6.1ms 0.4MB 343ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
lua 4.lua 714ms 3.6ms 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 0.6ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 38ms 1.3ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.3
lua 4.lua 75ms 1.4ms 2.4MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
go 4-m.go 1909ms 16ms 5.6MB 7410ms 7ms go 1.24.3
go 1.go 3665ms 9.0ms 5.6MB 3663ms 0ms go 1.24.3
lua 1.lua 4074ms 26ms 2.5MB 4067ms 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 480ms 0.9ms 5.5MB 1843ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 1.go 915ms 1.2ms 3.5MB 910ms 0ms go 1.24.3
lua 1.lua 1025ms 6.0ms 2.4MB 1013ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 1396ms 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 0.1ms 5.5MB 450ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 1.go 233ms 2.1ms 3.5MB 223ms 0ms go 1.24.3
lua 1.lua 259ms 1.6ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 352ms 1.1ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7