Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu Feb 01 2024, 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-m.go 2665ms 13ms 44.2MB 5553ms 47ms go 1.21.6
lua 1.lua 3568ms 87ms 172.9MB 3433ms 120ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 4172ms 25ms 51.6MB 4157ms 3ms tinygo 0.30.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 105.0MB 4950ms 40ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1-m.go 237ms 1.8ms 7.8MB 393ms 3ms go 1.21.6
lua 1.lua 290ms 1.7ms 15.6MB 270ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 316ms 4.0ms 6.6MB 307ms 0ms tinygo 0.30.0
lua 1.lua 855ms 12ms 17.0MB 840ms 3ms lua 5.4.6

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 0.6ms 0.1ms 0.1MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.30.0
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.6
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.1MB 0ms 0ms go 1.21.6
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-m.go 1632ms 20ms 39.1MB 3303ms 47ms go 1.21.6
go 2-m.go 1860ms 6.1ms 41.4MB 3863ms 37ms go 1.21.6
go 1.go 2314ms 36ms 51.7MB 2297ms 7ms tinygo 0.30.0
go 2.go 3797ms 21ms 119.4MB 3773ms 7ms tinygo 0.30.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4950ms 40ms lua 5.4.6
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4937ms 53ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1-m.go 365ms 1.8ms 13.8MB 710ms 13ms go 1.21.6
go 2-m.go 409ms 1.0ms 13.8MB 820ms 20ms go 1.21.6
go 1.go 445ms 1.4ms 13.8MB 433ms 0ms tinygo 0.30.0
go 2.go 684ms 10ms 39.5MB 670ms 0ms tinygo 0.30.0
lua 1.lua 1196ms 6.5ms 31.3MB 1160ms 20ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2323ms 26ms 28.8MB 2303ms 3ms lua 5.4.6

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 348ms 1.1ms 2.1MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.30.0
go 1.go 364ms 0.9ms 3.3MB 350ms 0ms go 1.21.6
lua 4.lua 707ms 1.1ms 2.4MB 697ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 36ms 0.1ms 0.1MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.30.0
go 1.go 39ms 0.2ms 3.3MB 30ms 0ms go 1.21.6
lua 4.lua 76ms 2.8ms 2.4MB 63ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1138ms 22ms 2.3MB 1127ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 1911ms 7.7ms 5.3MB 7327ms 0ms go 1.21.6
go 1.go 3639ms 25ms 5.4MB 3630ms 0ms go 1.21.6
lua 1.lua 4049ms 5.8ms 2.5MB 4037ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go timeout 0.0ms 2.4MB 4990ms 0ms tinygo 0.30.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.4MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 479ms 0.9ms 5.3MB 1817ms 3ms go 1.21.6
go 1.go 928ms 8.2ms 3.3MB 923ms 0ms go 1.21.6
lua 1.lua 1015ms 1.6ms 2.4MB 1003ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 1394ms 5.3ms 0.4MB 1383ms 0ms tinygo 0.30.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 126ms 1.3ms 5.3MB 437ms 0ms go 1.21.6
go 1.go 236ms 5.1ms 3.3MB 223ms 0ms go 1.21.6
lua 1.lua 259ms 2.7ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 349ms 0.4ms 0.3MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.30.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4993ms 0ms lua 5.4.6