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Benchmarks

Lua VS Haxe benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Jun 23 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
haxe 1.hx 1317ms 11ms 144.0MB 1497ms 70ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 3539ms 82ms 172.9MB 3403ms 123ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 4420ms 7.8ms 495.1MB 5000ms 247ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 48.6MB 5657ms 417ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 83.0MB 5150ms 673ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 50.9MB 7683ms 437ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 131.0MB 7317ms 777ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 105.0MB 4947ms 37ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 90ms 3.6ms 25.8MB 83ms 3ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 297ms 5.1ms 15.9MB 270ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 398ms 2.4ms 58.3MB 440ms 23ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 646ms 9.3ms 8.7MB 603ms 60ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 692ms 36ms 11.2MB 753ms 53ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
lua 1.lua 823ms 6.8ms 16.9MB 807ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
haxe 2.hx 946ms 20ms 25.2MB 910ms 177ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx 1045ms 6.8ms 13.7MB 940ms 160ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.3ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.3ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
haxe 1.hx 2.1ms 0.3ms 4.4MB 0ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2.2ms 0.4ms 2.9MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 3.4ms 0.3ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 922ms 7.4ms 95.0MB 1027ms 47ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 32.6MB 4987ms 523ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 55.1MB 5913ms 467ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4953ms 33ms 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
haxe 1.hx 174ms 2.4ms 26.6MB 173ms 13ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 1200ms 56ms 31.1MB 1170ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 1325ms 25ms 20.3MB 1353ms 123ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 1377ms 28ms 10.8MB 1313ms 153ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 2310ms 37ms 28.6MB 2290ms 7ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 715ms 2.7ms 2.4MB 707ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 856ms 3.7ms 3.0MB 847ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 1062ms 2.4ms 3.0MB 1053ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 1395ms 8.8ms 25.6MB 1580ms 30ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 2408ms 11ms 3.6MB 2397ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 2475ms 15ms 3.6MB 2467ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.4MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.4MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.4MB 3933ms 1573ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.9MB 4137ms 1327ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
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
lua 4.lua 75ms 1.4ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 88ms 0.0ms 3.0MB 80ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 111ms 2.1ms 3.0MB 103ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 156ms 2.4ms 25.6MB 157ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 245ms 0.4ms 3.6MB 237ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 259ms 3.6ms 3.6MB 247ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx 674ms 3.1ms 4.4MB 667ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 679ms 4.5ms 3.3MB 513ms 223ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 800ms 16ms 3.8MB 657ms 203ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 811ms 7.7ms 4.6MB 803ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 4.lua 1160ms 15ms 2.3MB 1153ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 3907ms 10ms 3.3MB 3893ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 4070ms 8.1ms 2.5MB 4060ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 7.0MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.9MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
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
haxe 1.hx 984ms 3.3ms 3.1MB 970ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 1046ms 19ms 2.4MB 1037ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 2400ms 1.8ms 6.6MB 2390ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.8MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
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
haxe 1.hx 251ms 2.2ms 3.1MB 240ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 258ms 1.6ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 610ms 11ms 5.4MB 597ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2306ms 10ms 3.8MB 2297ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7