Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Nim benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sat Nov 16 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
nim 2.nim 775ms 7.6ms 34.4MB 753ms 3ms nim 2.2.0
nim 2.nim 952ms 0.1ms 34.7MB 933ms 3ms nim/clang 2.2.0
lua 1.lua 3463ms 70ms 172.8MB 3323ms 123ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4960ms 27ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 75ms 1.3ms 5.5MB 60ms 0ms nim 2.2.0
nim 2.nim 93ms 2.7ms 5.8MB 80ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.0
lua 1.lua 286ms 1.1ms 15.9MB 263ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 810ms 1.8ms 16.9MB 790ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 1.1ms 0.0ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.0
nim 1.nim 1.2ms 0.1ms 1.6MB 0ms 0ms nim 2.2.0
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 560ms 17ms 34.4MB 540ms 0ms nim 2.2.0
nim 1.nim 630ms 12ms 35.2MB 613ms 3ms nim/clang 2.2.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4953ms 33ms 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
nim 1.nim 118ms 2.1ms 9.6MB 107ms 0ms nim 2.2.0
nim 1.nim 133ms 5.2ms 9.9MB 120ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.0
lua 1.lua 1122ms 32ms 31.0MB 1097ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2145ms 2.0ms 28.6MB 2120ms 10ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 320ms 1.8ms 1.8MB 310ms 0ms nim 2.2.0
nim 2.nim 340ms 1.1ms 2.0MB 330ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.0
lua 4.lua 716ms 7.4ms 2.4MB 707ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
nim 2.nim 35ms 1.2ms 1.8MB 27ms 0ms nim 2.2.0
nim 2.nim 37ms 1.1ms 2.0MB 30ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.0
lua 4.lua 76ms 2.2ms 2.4MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1120ms 22ms 2.3MB 1107ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 3574ms 3.5ms 1.6MB 3563ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.0
nim 1.nim 3585ms 8.7ms 1.4MB 3577ms 0ms nim 2.2.0
lua 1.lua 4052ms 6.0ms 2.5MB 4043ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.5MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 899ms 7.6ms 1.5MB 890ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.0
nim 1.nim 900ms 3.3ms 1.8MB 890ms 0ms nim 2.2.0
lua 1.lua 1024ms 0.9ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
nim 1.nim 225ms 0.1ms 1.5MB 210ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.0
nim 1.nim 228ms 1.4ms 1.3MB 220ms 0ms nim 2.2.0
lua 1.lua 258ms 1.0ms 2.3MB 247ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7