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Benchmarks

Lua VS Haxe benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Jan 22 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 20ms 145.9MB 1507ms 70ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 3542ms 27ms 172.9MB 3407ms 117ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 4434ms 85ms 495.3MB 5067ms 240ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 50.6MB 5500ms 407ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 85.0MB 5020ms 703ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 52.4MB 7647ms 430ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 133.0MB 7440ms 810ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4943ms 40ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 94ms 2.6ms 27.5MB 90ms 7ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 291ms 1.8ms 15.8MB 267ms 3ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 406ms 6.6ms 58.3MB 430ms 37ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 633ms 3.4ms 10.8MB 597ms 53ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 685ms 25ms 13.2MB 743ms 57ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
lua 1.lua 819ms 1.8ms 16.9MB 803ms 7ms lua 5.4.7
haxe 2.hx 927ms 18ms 15.7MB 807ms 160ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 1160ms 86ms 27.0MB 1173ms 200ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.8ms 0.4ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
haxe 1.hx 2.2ms 0.2ms 4.9MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2.6ms 0.1ms 4.3MB 0ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 3.6ms 0.2ms 4.8MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 917ms 8.2ms 96.9MB 1023ms 43ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 34.5MB 4907ms 497ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 59.1MB 6110ms 440ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.5MB 4940ms 47ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4933ms 47ms 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 3.9ms 28.6MB 173ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 1152ms 5.2ms 31.1MB 1120ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 1287ms 11ms 12.8MB 1217ms 143ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 1312ms 13ms 22.2MB 1310ms 143ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
lua 1.lua 2299ms 31ms 28.6MB 2263ms 20ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 725ms 27ms 2.3MB 717ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 852ms 3.3ms 5.1MB 840ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 1050ms 8.1ms 5.0MB 1033ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 1410ms 33ms 25.6MB 1583ms 50ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 2407ms 6.7ms 5.7MB 2393ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 1.hx 2445ms 1.3ms 5.7MB 2430ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.4MB 4987ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.4MB 4983ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 5.2MB 3890ms 1607ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 6.0MB 4097ms 1367ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
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 74ms 1.2ms 2.3MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 91ms 1.0ms 5.0MB 80ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 111ms 2.6ms 5.0MB 100ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 156ms 5.2ms 27.6MB 157ms 7ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 244ms 0.6ms 5.7MB 230ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 1.hx 250ms 1.0ms 5.7MB 240ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 2.hx 669ms 3.4ms 4.4MB 660ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 679ms 29ms 5.2MB 517ms 213ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 773ms 1.8ms 5.8MB 627ms 207ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 1.hx 823ms 17ms 4.4MB 813ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 4.lua 1103ms 17ms 2.3MB 1090ms 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 3914ms 2.8ms 5.3MB 3900ms 3ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 4060ms 12ms 2.5MB 4047ms 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 5.9MB 4983ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.5MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 991ms 6.4ms 5.1MB 973ms 3ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 1017ms 2.5ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 2391ms 1.5ms 6.5MB 2380ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 5.8MB 4983ms 3ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
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 253ms 2.4ms 5.0MB 243ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 257ms 0.2ms 2.3MB 247ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 602ms 1.7ms 5.4MB 587ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2305ms 4.5ms 5.8MB 2297ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.7