Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Lua benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Dec 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 3498ms 64ms 172.9MB 3367ms 120ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4943ms 40ms lua 5.4.7
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.6MB 4947ms 37ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 294ms 1.7ms 15.8MB 273ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 809ms 6.7ms 16.9MB 787ms 3ms lua 5.4.7
perl 1.pl 1789ms 18ms 14.4MB 1767ms 7ms perl 5.40.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 3646ms 17ms 11.0MB 3633ms 3ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 373ms 5.9ms 6.6MB 360ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.2ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 1.pl 2.9ms 0.4ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 716ms 2.9ms 2.4MB 707ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4983ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 75ms 2.5ms 2.3MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1124ms 21ms 2.3MB 1113ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 2.pl 2764ms 20ms 6.1MB 2753ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 4048ms 11ms 2.5MB 4037ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.5MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 14.0MB 19700ms 13ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1016ms 1.5ms 2.4MB 1003ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 14.3MB 19487ms 13ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 257ms 0.8ms 2.3MB 243ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
perl 4-m.pl 3406ms 10ms 13.7MB 13160ms 7ms perl 5.40.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7