Perl 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
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
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4957ms 27ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
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
perl 1.pl 1805ms 29ms 14.1MB 1787ms 3ms perl 5.38.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 3533ms 37ms 11.0MB 3517ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 366ms 12ms 6.6MB 353ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

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
perl 1.pl 2.7ms 0.2ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
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
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.3MB 4990ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
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
perl 2.pl 2562ms 54ms 6.3MB 2553ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

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
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.4MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.6
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 13.8MB 19783ms 10ms perl 5.38.2

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
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.6
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 14.0MB 19403ms 13ms perl 5.38.2

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
perl 4-m.pl 3241ms 7.1ms 13.5MB 12600ms 10ms perl 5.38.2
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4993ms 0ms lua 5.4.6