Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Java benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Feb 06 2023, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][2 cores] Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8272CL CPU @ 2.60GHz (Model 85)

* -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
java 2.java 741ms 67ms 604.5MB 693ms 140ms openjdk 20
java 2.java 785ms 70ms 601.6MB 723ms 153ms openjdk 19
java 2.java 929ms 77ms 665.9MB 940ms 233ms graal/jvm 17.0.6
java 2.java 1459ms 59ms 1085.7MB 960ms 723ms openjdk/zgc 19
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 119.6MB 4927ms 57ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 176.2MB 4913ms 67ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 2.java 187ms 22ms 108.8MB 167ms 37ms openjdk 20
java 2.java 192ms 10ms 111.6MB 187ms 33ms openjdk 19
java 2.java 204ms 15ms 162.8MB 223ms 60ms graal/jvm 17.0.6
java 2.java 346ms 6.2ms 239.6MB 207ms 167ms openjdk/zgc 19
lua 1.lua 478ms 3.0ms 24.7MB 453ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1214ms 12ms 17.3MB 1197ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 2.0ms 0.4ms 2.5MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2.3ms 0.7ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
java 1.java 80ms 2.1ms 48.1MB 72ms 14ms graal/jvm 17.0.6
java 1.java 87ms 9.2ms 39.3MB 78ms 16ms openjdk 20
java 1.java 93ms 4.7ms 42.4MB 76ms 24ms openjdk 19
java 1.java 150ms 9.1ms 41.0MB 86ms 64ms openjdk/zgc 19

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 1.java 578ms 25ms 374.6MB 570ms 107ms openjdk 20
java 1.java 599ms 5.4ms 373.3MB 597ms 100ms openjdk 19
java 1.java 607ms 1.8ms 351.7MB 767ms 110ms graal/jvm 17.0.6
java 1.java 1062ms 7.0ms 737.3MB 673ms 530ms openjdk/zgc 19
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 159.1MB 4917ms 63ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 180.9MB 4890ms 90ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 1.java 259ms 11ms 174.3MB 250ms 63ms openjdk 19
java 1.java 264ms 11ms 222.1MB 263ms 60ms openjdk 20
java 1-m.java 301ms 2.6ms 279.6MB 410ms 60ms graal/jvm 17.0.6
java 1.java 460ms 1.7ms 307.8MB 270ms 230ms openjdk/zgc 19
lua 1.lua 1836ms 89ms 36.3MB 1813ms 3ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 3056ms 30ms 41.6MB 3020ms 17ms lua 5.4.4

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 1.java 599ms 11ms 89.9MB 623ms 27ms graal/jvm 17.0.6
java 1.java 651ms 5.4ms 40.6MB 660ms 10ms openjdk 20
java 1.java 661ms 11ms 42.0MB 657ms 23ms openjdk 19
java 1.java 707ms 18ms 41.7MB 650ms 70ms openjdk/zgc 19
lua 4.lua 1110ms 1.0ms 1.4MB 1100ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
java 2.java 2110ms 21ms 516.4MB 2083ms 167ms openjdk 20
java 2.java 2163ms 14ms 550.9MB 2123ms 173ms openjdk 19
java 2.java 2913ms 129ms 1417.8MB 2140ms 963ms openjdk/zgc 19
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 1.4MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 117ms 2.1ms 1.4MB 103ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
java 1.java 160ms 6.0ms 40.5MB 167ms 23ms openjdk 20
java 1.java 163ms 3.2ms 89.9MB 190ms 30ms graal/jvm 17.0.6
java 1.java 178ms 5.1ms 42.0MB 170ms 23ms openjdk 19
java 1.java 217ms 7.7ms 43.8MB 173ms 63ms openjdk/zgc 19
java 2.java 460ms 1.3ms 347.4MB 490ms 107ms openjdk 20
java 2.java 488ms 15ms 362.6MB 517ms 107ms openjdk 19
java 2.java 793ms 2.4ms 487.0MB 563ms 377ms openjdk/zgc 19
lua 4.lua 1567ms 89ms 1.5MB 1557ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 2-m.java 4353ms 35ms 91.0MB 8370ms 40ms graal/jvm 17.0.6
java 2.java timeout 0.0ms 44.0MB 9700ms 27ms openjdk 19
java 2.java timeout 0.0ms 40.6MB 9707ms 23ms openjdk 20
java 2.java timeout 0.0ms 43.9MB 9613ms 57ms openjdk/zgc 19
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.2MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.6MB 4987ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 2-m.java 1256ms 17ms 93.9MB 2293ms 27ms graal/jvm 17.0.6
lua 1.lua 1405ms 0.1ms 2.5MB 1390ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
java 2-m.java 1690ms 21ms 44.1MB 3167ms 20ms openjdk 19
java 2-m.java 1719ms 55ms 42.2MB 3123ms 70ms openjdk/zgc 19
java 2-m.java 1964ms 48ms 40.9MB 3727ms 17ms openjdk 20
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.2MB 4983ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 360ms 6.5ms 1.4MB 347ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
java 2-m.java 443ms 28ms 90.8MB 740ms 30ms graal/jvm 17.0.6
java 2-m.java 583ms 44ms 42.6MB 1013ms 17ms openjdk 19
java 2-m.java 603ms 35ms 40.7MB 1057ms 17ms openjdk 20
java 2-m.java 636ms 27ms 42.1MB 1000ms 70ms openjdk/zgc 19
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 1.4MB 4980ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 579ms 2.4ms 5.1MB 563ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
java 1-m.java 3410ms 117ms 198.3MB 6373ms 130ms openjdk 19
java 1-m.java 4472ms 132ms 924.9MB 7827ms 667ms openjdk/zgc 19
java 1.java timeout 0.0ms 143.3MB 9577ms 97ms openjdk 20

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 36ms 1.0ms 3.1MB 30ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
java 1-m.java 854ms 61ms 112.8MB 1507ms 50ms openjdk 19
java 1-m.java 907ms 79ms 112.3MB 1597ms 60ms openjdk 20
java 1-m.java 1004ms 94ms 238.1MB 1497ms 207ms openjdk/zgc 19