Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Wasm benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Dec 31 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
wasm 5.rs 1607ms 21ms 37.2MB 1587ms 7ms wasmtime 28.0.0
wasm 4.rs 1657ms 9.1ms 34.9MB 1637ms 7ms wasmtime 28.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1679ms 45ms 50.9MB 1657ms 10ms wasmtime 28.0.0
lua 1.lua 3311ms 71ms 172.9MB 3173ms 127ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4940ms 47ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 157ms 4.7ms 25.2MB 147ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0
wasm 3.rs 166ms 8.6ms 23.2MB 150ms 3ms wasmtime 28.0.0
wasm 4.rs 206ms 53ms 23.0MB 190ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0
lua 1.lua 277ms 1.4ms 15.6MB 257ms 3ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 757ms 1.9ms 17.0MB 743ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.0ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2.2ms 1.0ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
wasm 1.rs 6.5ms 0.4ms 19.4MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 815ms 3.5ms 42.9MB 787ms 10ms wasmtime 28.0.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.3MB 4950ms 37ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4937ms 47ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 179ms 1.6ms 27.0MB 160ms 7ms wasmtime 28.0.0
lua 1.lua 1019ms 0.9ms 31.1MB 983ms 20ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2026ms 40ms 28.6MB 2003ms 3ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 376ms 1.9ms 18.8MB 363ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0
wasm 2.rs 550ms 2.4ms 18.8MB 537ms 3ms wasmtime 28.0.0
lua 4.lua 677ms 3.8ms 2.3MB 670ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 46ms 1.3ms 18.9MB 30ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0
wasm 2.rs 62ms 1.3ms 20.8MB 50ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0
lua 4.lua 72ms 3.0ms 2.3MB 60ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1042ms 22ms 2.3MB 1033ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 3400ms 18ms 18.6MB 3387ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0
lua 1.lua 3844ms 19ms 2.5MB 3830ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
wasm 7.rs 4694ms 77ms 18.6MB 4683ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0
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
wasm 2.rs 856ms 6.8ms 18.7MB 843ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0
lua 1.lua 970ms 12ms 2.4MB 960ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
wasm 7.rs 1168ms 17ms 20.5MB 1160ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0
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
wasm 2.rs 221ms 1.7ms 20.5MB 210ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0
lua 1.lua 243ms 1.7ms 2.3MB 230ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
wasm 7.rs 298ms 4.7ms 18.9MB 290ms 0ms wasmtime 28.0.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7