Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Javascript 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
javascript 1-m.js 939ms 14ms 247.7MB 1473ms 283ms bun 1.0.25
javascript 1-m.js 1395ms 30ms 261.0MB 2187ms 363ms node 21.6.1
lua 1.lua 3568ms 87ms 172.9MB 3433ms 120ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
javascript 1.js 85ms 3.6ms 114.9MB 70ms 17ms bun 1.0.25
javascript 1.js 140ms 0.6ms 87.4MB 130ms 37ms node 21.6.1
lua 1.lua 290ms 1.7ms 15.6MB 270ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.6
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
javascript 1.js 14ms 0.3ms 65.6MB 0ms 10ms bun 1.0.25
javascript 1.js 34ms 0.8ms 44.0MB 16ms 6ms node 21.6.1

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1-m.js 477ms 4.1ms 169.9MB 633ms 100ms bun 1.0.25
javascript 1.js 522ms 2.3ms 123.9MB 600ms 90ms node 21.6.1
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
javascript 1.js 105ms 1.0ms 116.9MB 100ms 13ms bun 1.0.25
javascript 1.js 163ms 2.8ms 90.9MB 167ms 33ms node 21.6.1
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
javascript 6.js 499ms 10ms 49.9MB 483ms 7ms node 21.6.1
javascript 6.js 704ms 2.9ms 81.5MB 703ms 3ms bun 1.0.25
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
lua 4.lua 76ms 2.8ms 2.4MB 63ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
javascript 6.js 85ms 0.6ms 49.9MB 67ms 13ms node 21.6.1
javascript 6.js 92ms 2.7ms 81.4MB 87ms 3ms bun 1.0.25
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
javascript 6-m.js 2120ms 26ms 92.2MB 7783ms 97ms node 21.6.1
lua 1.lua 4049ms 5.8ms 2.5MB 4037ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
javascript 6-m.js 636ms 17ms 91.5MB 2100ms 110ms node 21.6.1
lua 1.lua 1015ms 1.6ms 2.4MB 1003ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
lua 1.lua 259ms 2.7ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
javascript 6-m.js 260ms 4.6ms 91.2MB 737ms 90ms node 21.6.1
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4993ms 0ms lua 5.4.6