Programming Language and compiler
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Wasm VS Acton benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Apr 14 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
wasm 4.rs 1823ms 9.8ms 33.2MB 1800ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1857ms 49ms 49.2MB 1830ms 17ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 5.rs 1918ms 279ms 33.1MB 1893ms 7ms wasmtime 31.0.0
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 67.0MB 6010ms 83ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 169ms 0.6ms 19.2MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 181ms 4.3ms 21.2MB 167ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 4.rs 192ms 31ms 19.1MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
acton 1.act 836ms 39ms 12.0MB 983ms 73ms actonc 0.24.1

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 3.rs 1118ms 3.9ms 19.4MB 1107ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 3.rs 83ms 3.4ms 18.2MB 73ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 262ms 7.3ms 7.1MB 240ms 57ms actonc 0.24.1
wasm 1.rs 416ms 1.2ms 18.6MB 400ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 90ms 6.8ms 5.3MB 70ms 27ms actonc 0.24.1
wasm 1.rs 115ms 1.4ms 18.0MB 100ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 4206ms 2.3ms 16.7MB 4190ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 355ms 3.1ms 16.8MB 340ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 236ms 2.4ms 17.2MB 220ms 3ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 32ms 0.4ms 17.4MB 20ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3.9ms 0.3ms 4.3MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.24.1
wasm 1.rs 6.6ms 0.4ms 17.3MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 89ms 2.0ms 17.6MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 249ms 1.0ms 16.9MB 240ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 47ms 1.0ms 17.3MB 40ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 8.rs 823ms 3.1ms 20.2MB 810ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 8.rs 43ms 0.6ms 17.4MB 30ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 885ms 5.7ms 41.3MB 857ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
acton 1.act 3301ms 20ms 102.0MB 3610ms 63ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 195ms 4.3ms 23.3MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
acton 1.act 703ms 11ms 30.4MB 740ms 27ms actonc 0.24.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 400ms 1.5ms 17.1MB 390ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 582ms 0.4ms 17.2MB 570ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 48ms 0.4ms 17.0MB 40ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 65ms 0.1ms 17.1MB 53ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 372ms 4.5ms 22.0MB 360ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 1.rs 481ms 4.7ms 56.1MB 463ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 561.0MB 6803ms 83ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 97ms 1.6ms 27.0MB 83ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 98ms 1.4ms 18.3MB 83ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
acton 1.act 2396ms 10ms 192.3MB 2950ms 50ms actonc 0.24.1

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 2163ms 8.9ms 18.1MB 2150ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
acton 1-m.act 2870ms 74ms 6.7MB 2740ms 1887ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 517ms 2.5ms 17.3MB 507ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
acton 1-m.act 875ms 20ms 5.9MB 810ms 620ms actonc 0.24.1

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 3487ms 19ms 17.1MB 3473ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 878ms 1.3ms 17.1MB 863ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 3601ms 2.7ms 16.9MB 3587ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 7.rs 4897ms 8.1ms 16.8MB 4880ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 908ms 1.2ms 16.9MB 897ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 7.rs 1232ms 2.1ms 16.8MB 1220ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 235ms 2.0ms 16.7MB 220ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 7.rs 315ms 1.3ms 17.3MB 300ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0