Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Php VS Acton benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Jun 23 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
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 67.0MB 5897ms 97ms actonc 0.26.0
php 1.php timeout 0.0ms 141.9MB 4963ms 27ms php 8.2.28

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
php 1.php 621ms 4.0ms 62.7MB 587ms 20ms php 8.2.28
acton 1.act 931ms 26ms 12.0MB 1060ms 73ms actonc 0.26.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3.7ms 0.2ms 4.1MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.26.0
php 1.php 47ms 0.9ms 52.3MB 16ms 20ms php 8.2.28

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3685ms 246ms 84.6MB 4110ms 77ms actonc 0.26.0
php 1.php 3756ms 39ms 113.6MB 3717ms 23ms php 8.2.28

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 755ms 11ms 23.9MB 830ms 40ms actonc 0.26.0
php 1.php 823ms 5.4ms 66.8MB 787ms 20ms php 8.2.28