OCaml VS Lua benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu Feb 01 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
ocaml 1.ml 3017ms 20ms 150.6MB 2940ms 63ms ocaml 5.1.1
lua 1.lua 3568ms 87ms 172.9MB 3433ms 120ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 105.0MB 4950ms 40ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 222ms 2.9ms 18.8MB 203ms 3ms ocaml 5.1.1
lua 1.lua 290ms 1.7ms 15.6MB 270ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 855ms 12ms 17.0MB 840ms 3ms lua 5.4.6

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 2911ms 3.0ms 3.0MB 2897ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 245ms 2.5ms 3.0MB 233ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 6.ml 345ms 0.3ms 22.7MB 330ms 3ms ocaml 5.1.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 6.ml 39ms 0.7ms 5.4MB 27ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1

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 5.4.6
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
ocaml 1.ml 1.7ms 0.1ms 3.0MB 0ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 186ms 5.8ms 6.5MB 177ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 540ms 18ms 6.4MB 527ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 79ms 1.6ms 6.0MB 70ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 1178ms 8.6ms 74.8MB 1140ms 23ms ocaml 5.1.1
ocaml 2.ml 2124ms 11ms 85.5MB 2077ms 27ms ocaml 5.1.1
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4950ms 40ms lua 5.4.6
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4937ms 53ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 153ms 1.9ms 23.1MB 133ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1
ocaml 2.ml 371ms 4.0ms 24.9MB 347ms 7ms ocaml 5.1.1
lua 1.lua 1196ms 6.5ms 31.3MB 1160ms 20ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2323ms 26ms 28.8MB 2303ms 3ms lua 5.4.6

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 373ms 3.1ms 3.3MB 360ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1
lua 4.lua 707ms 1.1ms 2.4MB 697ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 40ms 0.9ms 3.3MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1
lua 4.lua 76ms 2.8ms 2.4MB 63ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1138ms 22ms 2.3MB 1127ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 989ms 6.1ms 550.4MB 923ms 50ms ocaml 5.1.1
ocaml 2.ml 2043ms 6.1ms 18.5MB 2030ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 212ms 19ms 139.7MB 190ms 7ms ocaml 5.1.1
ocaml 2.ml 502ms 3.3ms 9.0MB 487ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml timeout 0.0ms 466.4MB 4807ms 173ms ocaml 5.1.1

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 554ms 9.9ms 57.1MB 520ms 17ms ocaml 5.1.1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 4049ms 5.8ms 2.5MB 4037ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
ocaml 2.ml 4552ms 0.3ms 4.4MB 4537ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.4MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1015ms 1.6ms 2.4MB 1003ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
ocaml 2.ml 1148ms 4.4ms 4.0MB 1137ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 259ms 2.7ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
ocaml 2.ml 296ms 9.9ms 3.4MB 287ms 0ms ocaml 5.1.1
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4993ms 0ms lua 5.4.6