Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

V VS Lua benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jul 13 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
v 1.v 825ms 11ms 28.8MB 810ms 3ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
v 1.v 2174ms 25ms 2086.6MB 1273ms 890ms v/clang 0.4.11
lua 1.lua 3544ms 45ms 172.9MB 3407ms 123ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4947ms 40ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 72ms 2.2ms 4.6MB 60ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
v 1.v 206ms 2.7ms 197.9MB 117ms 73ms v/clang 0.4.11
lua 1.lua 290ms 5.5ms 15.7MB 267ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 814ms 5.2ms 16.9MB 797ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 18.1MB 8350ms 10927ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 18.8MB 8527ms 10727ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1-m.v 1386ms 26ms 10.4MB 2293ms 2940ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
v 1-m.v 1440ms 73ms 10.0MB 2367ms 3080ms v/clang 0.4.11

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 8.0MB 4990ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 4.5MB 4990ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 2199ms 24ms 1.9MB 2190ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
v 1.v 2258ms 6.9ms 1.1MB 2250ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 186ms 0.8ms 1.9MB 180ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
v 1.v 192ms 0.9ms 1.1MB 183ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 503ms 5.1ms 1.3MB 497ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 1.v 522ms 1.0ms 2.1MB 510ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 54ms 1.8ms 1.3MB 47ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 1.v 56ms 2.5ms 2.1MB 50ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 1.v 1.3ms 0.0ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.2ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 259ms 3.4ms 2.1MB 250ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
v 1.v 267ms 5.4ms 1.3MB 257ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 770ms 4.1ms 2.1MB 760ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
v 1.v 792ms 5.6ms 1.3MB 787ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 91ms 2.0ms 1.3MB 83ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 1.v 100ms 1.6ms 2.1MB 93ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 312ms 1.5ms 1.6MB 300ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 1.v 312ms 1.3ms 2.3MB 300ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
lua 4.lua 713ms 3.7ms 2.3MB 703ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 33ms 0.0ms 1.6MB 30ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 1.v 34ms 0.2ms 2.3MB 27ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
lua 4.lua 74ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1154ms 10ms 2.3MB 1143ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 321ms 15ms 40.3MB 307ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 1.v 323ms 7.3ms 41.2MB 310ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
v 2.v 329ms 1.3ms 6.1MB 320ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 2.v 331ms 4.8ms 6.9MB 323ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 61ms 2.9ms 11.9MB 50ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
v 1.v 65ms 0.6ms 11.0MB 57ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 2.v 82ms 1.5ms 3.1MB 73ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
v 2.v 83ms 2.1ms 2.4MB 73ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 2.v 3245ms 96ms 4.0MB 3223ms 10ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 2.v 786ms 13ms 3.1MB 773ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 83.0MB 4980ms 10ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 3628ms 16ms 26.0MB 3613ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 4063ms 4.0ms 2.5MB 4053ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.5MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 1.6MB 4990ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 2.8MB 4990ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1029ms 1.6ms 2.4MB 1020ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
v 1.v 1289ms 3.0ms 1.5MB 1280ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 1.v 1327ms 5.5ms 2.5MB 1317ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 257ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
v 1.v 325ms 1.8ms 1.5MB 317ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.11
v 1.v 335ms 1.1ms 2.4MB 327ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.11
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7