Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Kotlin benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Feb 08 2023, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][2 cores] Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8171M 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
kotlin 1.kt 793ms 13ms 413.5MB 770ms 157ms kotlin/jvm 17.0.2
kotlin 1.kt timeout 0.0ms 194.4MB 8290ms 1107ms kotlin/native 1.8.10
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 119.5MB 4903ms 70ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 174.6MB 4897ms 83ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt 155ms 4.2ms 109.3MB 123ms 43ms kotlin/jvm 17.0.2
lua 1.lua 584ms 53ms 24.6MB 553ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
kotlin 1-m.kt 657ms 26ms 34.4MB 1093ms 130ms kotlin/native 1.8.10
lua 1.lua 1408ms 8.5ms 17.4MB 1387ms 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 2.4ms 0.8ms 2.2MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2.4ms 1.0ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
kotlin 1.kt 2.6ms 0.4ms 1.5MB 0ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.10
kotlin 1.kt 78ms 1.3ms 40.7MB 62ms 10ms kotlin/jvm 17.0.2

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt 580ms 1.6ms 363.2MB 553ms 110ms kotlin/jvm 17.0.2
kotlin 1-m.kt 3664ms 86ms 138.6MB 5797ms 787ms kotlin/native 1.8.10
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 159.1MB 4913ms 67ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 180.9MB 4870ms 107ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt 234ms 5.3ms 221.4MB 200ms 63ms kotlin/jvm 17.0.2
kotlin 1-m.kt 732ms 13ms 38.4MB 1173ms 133ms kotlin/native 1.8.10
lua 1.lua 2162ms 57ms 38.5MB 2130ms 13ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 3623ms 55ms 41.6MB 3593ms 13ms lua 5.4.4

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt 768ms 9.5ms 42.9MB 757ms 27ms kotlin/jvm 17.0.2
kotlin 1n.kt 837ms 45ms 1.5MB 827ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.10
lua 4.lua 1337ms 28ms 1.5MB 1320ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 1.5MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1n.kt 88ms 3.6ms 1.5MB 80ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.10
lua 4.lua 138ms 1.4ms 1.5MB 123ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
kotlin 1.kt 185ms 11ms 43.0MB 183ms 20ms kotlin/jvm 17.0.2
lua 4.lua 1886ms 102ms 1.4MB 1873ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.2MB 4977ms 3ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.5MB 4987ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1702ms 29ms 2.5MB 1687ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 434ms 2.7ms 1.5MB 423ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 1.5MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.4