Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Javascript benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed May 25 2022, 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
javascript 1.js 4218ms 14ms 265.6MB 2980ms 1580ms node 18.2.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 237ms 0.8ms 80.5MB 213ms 33ms node 18.2.0
lua 1.lua 542ms 22ms 25.2MB 523ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0
lua 1.lua 1204ms 6.2ms 17.3MB 1183ms 3ms lua 5.4.4

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 2.1ms 0.7ms 2.2MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0
lua 1.lua 3.1ms 1.1ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
javascript 1.js 50ms 3.0ms 37.6MB 36ms 4ms node 18.2.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 1071ms 1.7ms 117.0MB 1107ms 53ms node 18.2.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 302ms 1.3ms 84.4MB 290ms 33ms node 18.2.0
lua 1.lua 2331ms 46ms 35.3MB 2293ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0
lua 1.lua 3310ms 64ms 41.5MB 3277ms 20ms lua 5.4.4

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6.js 721ms 41ms 42.6MB 703ms 3ms node 18.2.0
lua 4.lua 1120ms 8.4ms 1.1MB 1107ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 116ms 1.0ms 1.0MB 100ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0
javascript 6.js 132ms 11ms 42.5MB 103ms 13ms node 18.2.0
lua 4.lua 1449ms 38ms 1.1MB 1433ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 2983ms 4.9ms 67.0MB 5593ms 30ms node 18.2.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 923ms 9.4ms 65.4MB 1623ms 27ms node 18.2.0
lua 1.lua 1357ms 86ms 2.4MB 1347ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 325ms 27ms 2.4MB 313ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0
javascript 6-m.js 410ms 6.8ms 65.7MB 593ms 33ms node 18.2.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 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 3.1ms 5.0MB 567ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0
javascript 1.js 2607ms 120ms 76.4MB 2667ms 50ms node 18.2.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 38ms 2.0ms 3.0MB 27ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0
javascript 1.js 237ms 1.3ms 57.5MB 210ms 23ms node 18.2.0