Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Haxe benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jun 01 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 1321ms 15ms 143.9MB 1510ms 67ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 3411ms 55ms 172.9MB 3287ms 110ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 4384ms 33ms 495.3MB 4913ms 253ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 48.6MB 5477ms 433ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 83.0MB 4890ms 730ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 51.1MB 7413ms 413ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 130.9MB 7360ms 757ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 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 92ms 2.1ms 25.6MB 90ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 287ms 0.8ms 15.8MB 267ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 398ms 1.3ms 58.3MB 427ms 23ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 637ms 1.2ms 8.8MB 613ms 43ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 671ms 6.2ms 11.2MB 740ms 53ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
lua 1.lua 818ms 12ms 16.9MB 803ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
haxe 2.hx 918ms 2.5ms 13.7MB 813ms 147ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 922ms 6.6ms 25.0MB 903ms 157ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.3ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.2ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 2.1ms 0.2ms 2.9MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2.3ms 0.2ms 4.5MB 0ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 3.5ms 0.4ms 2.8MB 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 904ms 6.1ms 94.9MB 990ms 47ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 32.6MB 4917ms 523ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 57.0MB 5810ms 497ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4947ms 37ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4927ms 57ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 170ms 3.1ms 26.6MB 173ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 1103ms 2.6ms 31.0MB 1073ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 1298ms 40ms 20.3MB 1337ms 120ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 1307ms 5.9ms 10.8MB 1263ms 133ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 2131ms 17ms 28.6MB 2113ms 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 713ms 2.3ms 2.3MB 707ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 856ms 5.0ms 3.0MB 843ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 1068ms 2.6ms 3.0MB 1057ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 1384ms 8.3ms 25.6MB 1513ms 33ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 2410ms 13ms 3.6MB 2400ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 2467ms 0.4ms 3.6MB 2460ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.5MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.5MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.3MB 3920ms 1600ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.0MB 4170ms 1310ms 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 0.3ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 88ms 0.6ms 3.0MB 80ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 111ms 0.5ms 3.0MB 100ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 154ms 1.9ms 25.6MB 147ms 13ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 245ms 0.1ms 3.6MB 233ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 255ms 2.4ms 3.6MB 247ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 3.hx 669ms 2.7ms 3.1MB 513ms 213ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 674ms 6.4ms 4.4MB 667ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 781ms 7.2ms 3.8MB 637ms 207ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 811ms 1.5ms 4.4MB 800ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 4.lua 1123ms 35ms 2.3MB 1117ms 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 3896ms 11ms 3.3MB 3883ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 4062ms 9.7ms 2.5MB 4053ms 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 2.5MB 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 985ms 3.4ms 3.2MB 973ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 1019ms 1.0ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 2398ms 1.9ms 6.5MB 2387ms 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 250ms 2.4ms 3.0MB 240ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 259ms 2.2ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 603ms 1.6ms 5.4MB 590ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2301ms 12ms 3.8MB 2290ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7