Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Rust benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Apr 14 2025, 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
rust 4.rs 1281ms 5.2ms 33.6MB 1260ms 7ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 5.rs 1344ms 1.4ms 33.8MB 1317ms 10ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 3.rs 1480ms 48ms 49.8MB 1450ms 13ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 1.lua 3698ms 5.1ms 172.9MB 3550ms 133ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 105.0MB 4950ms 37ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 4.rs 123ms 2.7ms 5.6MB 117ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 5.rs 127ms 1.9ms 5.8MB 120ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 3.rs 143ms 9.2ms 7.8MB 130ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 1.lua 305ms 9.6ms 15.8MB 283ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 819ms 2.0ms 16.9MB 803ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 1.2ms 0.1ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 1.rs 1.2ms 0.1ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.88.0-nightly
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua 1.7ms 0.3ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 703ms 1.4ms 33.8MB 680ms 10ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4947ms 37ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4937ms 50ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 150ms 2.2ms 9.8MB 140ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 1.lua 1626ms 22ms 31.1MB 1600ms 13ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2403ms 68ms 28.8MB 2380ms 10ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 4-i.rs 163ms 0.5ms 1.8MB 160ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 7-i.rs 237ms 0.9ms 1.8MB 230ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 1.rs 240ms 0.4ms 1.8MB 230ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 3.rs 279ms 0.7ms 1.9MB 270ms 0ms rustc 1.88.0-nightly
rust 2.rs 284ms 0.8ms 1.8MB 273ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 4.lua 711ms 0.5ms 2.4MB 700ms 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
rust 4-i.rs 18ms 0.1ms 1.8MB 10ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 7-i.rs 26ms 0.5ms 1.9MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 1.rs 26ms 0.2ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 3.rs 30ms 0.1ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.88.0-nightly
rust 2.rs 31ms 0.2ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 4.lua 75ms 2.0ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1133ms 38ms 2.3MB 1123ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 8-m.rs 494ms 0.6ms 2.4MB 1910ms 3ms rustc 1.88.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 501ms 0.5ms 2.3MB 1937ms 3ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 8.rs 993ms 1.6ms 2.4MB 980ms 0ms rustc 1.88.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 1965ms 1.7ms 2.4MB 7730ms 7ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 7.rs 2063ms 2.7ms 2.0MB 2053ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 1.lua 4064ms 3.3ms 2.5MB 4053ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
rust 2.rs 4219ms 3.4ms 2.1MB 4207ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.4MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 8-m.rs 128ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 463ms 0ms rustc 1.88.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 130ms 0.6ms 2.3MB 473ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 8.rs 251ms 1.0ms 2.3MB 240ms 0ms rustc 1.88.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 495ms 0.3ms 2.1MB 1910ms 7ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 7.rs 521ms 1.8ms 1.8MB 510ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 1.lua 1022ms 2.6ms 2.4MB 1013ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
rust 2.rs 1059ms 1.2ms 1.9MB 1050ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 8-m.rs 35ms 0.4ms 2.1MB 110ms 0ms rustc 1.88.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 36ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 107ms 3ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 8.rs 65ms 1.0ms 2.0MB 57ms 0ms rustc 1.88.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 128ms 0.5ms 2.1MB 470ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
rust 7.rs 133ms 2.1ms 1.9MB 127ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 1.lua 260ms 3.0ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
rust 2.rs 267ms 1.3ms 1.9MB 257ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7