Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Wasm benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Fri Aug 01 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
wasm 5.rs 1754ms 5.6ms 33.8MB 1733ms 10ms wasmtime 35.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1818ms 28ms 49.8MB 1783ms 20ms wasmtime 35.0.0
wasm 4.rs 1833ms 6.3ms 33.7MB 1813ms 7ms wasmtime 35.0.0
lua 1.lua 3513ms 23ms 173.0MB 3370ms 130ms 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
wasm 5.rs 171ms 2.9ms 19.8MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
wasm 4.rs 174ms 0.5ms 19.8MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
wasm 3.rs 181ms 14ms 21.8MB 167ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
lua 1.lua 290ms 1.7ms 15.9MB 270ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 817ms 0.3ms 17.0MB 800ms 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 1.4ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
wasm 1.rs 6.4ms 0.3ms 18.0MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 880ms 4.4ms 41.7MB 857ms 10ms wasmtime 35.0.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4947ms 40ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.4MB 4923ms 63ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 192ms 0.3ms 24.1MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
lua 1.lua 1101ms 8.1ms 31.1MB 1073ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2192ms 63ms 28.8MB 2170ms 10ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 410ms 1.4ms 17.8MB 400ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
wasm 2.rs 565ms 5.2ms 17.9MB 553ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
lua 4.lua 711ms 0.9ms 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
wasm 1.rs 48ms 0.9ms 17.8MB 40ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
wasm 2.rs 65ms 1.2ms 17.8MB 50ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
lua 4.lua 77ms 1.2ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1145ms 12ms 2.3MB 1137ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 7.rs 3602ms 3.8ms 18.1MB 3590ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
wasm 2.rs 3607ms 9.5ms 17.8MB 3590ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
lua 1.lua 4064ms 5.2ms 2.5MB 4053ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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 905ms 0.6ms 17.4MB 890ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
wasm 7.rs 909ms 1.9ms 17.6MB 897ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
lua 1.lua 1018ms 0.4ms 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
wasm 7.rs 233ms 1.0ms 17.8MB 220ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
wasm 2.rs 234ms 1.7ms 17.3MB 220ms 0ms wasmtime 35.0.0
lua 1.lua 258ms 0.6ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7