Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Php VS Acton benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Jul 01 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 5903ms 87ms actonc 0.26.0
php 1.php timeout 0.0ms 141.6MB 4963ms 20ms php 8.2.28

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
php 1.php 614ms 0.1ms 62.7MB 583ms 17ms php 8.2.28
acton 1.act 825ms 24ms 12.1MB 950ms 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 3.5ms 0.3ms 4.3MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.26.0
php 1.php 48ms 2.3ms 52.2MB 18ms 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 3298ms 25ms 84.6MB 3703ms 53ms actonc 0.26.0
php 1.php 3860ms 168ms 113.6MB 3810ms 33ms php 8.2.28

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 725ms 34ms 23.8MB 793ms 33ms actonc 0.26.0
php 1.php 857ms 20ms 66.8MB 823ms 20ms php 8.2.28