Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Wasm benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon May 19 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 4.rs 1799ms 13ms 33.8MB 1780ms 10ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 5.rs 1807ms 26ms 33.8MB 1787ms 3ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1837ms 50ms 49.8MB 1807ms 17ms wasmtime 32.0.0
lua 1.lua 3557ms 39ms 172.9MB 3410ms 133ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4953ms 37ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 170ms 0.4ms 19.8MB 157ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 3.rs 172ms 3.8ms 21.7MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 4.rs 172ms 1.7ms 19.7MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
lua 1.lua 292ms 2.5ms 15.8MB 270ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 818ms 6.5ms 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 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
wasm 1.rs 6.8ms 0.2ms 18.0MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 901ms 10ms 43.7MB 873ms 10ms wasmtime 32.0.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4950ms 33ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4930ms 57ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 197ms 2.6ms 23.7MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
lua 1.lua 1219ms 43ms 31.1MB 1187ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2203ms 7.2ms 28.6MB 2187ms 7ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 407ms 0.1ms 18.2MB 393ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 2.rs 563ms 1.8ms 17.8MB 550ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
lua 4.lua 714ms 3.6ms 2.3MB 703ms 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 49ms 0.9ms 18.0MB 40ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 2.rs 65ms 1.2ms 18.1MB 53ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
lua 4.lua 75ms 1.4ms 2.4MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1124ms 44ms 2.3MB 1113ms 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 3700ms 13ms 17.7MB 3687ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
lua 1.lua 4074ms 26ms 2.5MB 4067ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
wasm 7.rs 4896ms 4.6ms 17.6MB 4883ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
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 932ms 4.9ms 17.6MB 920ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
lua 1.lua 1025ms 6.0ms 2.4MB 1013ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
wasm 7.rs 1230ms 0.5ms 18.1MB 1220ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
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 238ms 0.5ms 18.2MB 227ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
lua 1.lua 259ms 1.6ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
wasm 7.rs 314ms 0.7ms 17.9MB 300ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7