Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Wasm VS Acton benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jun 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
wasm 5.rs 1744ms 15ms 33.9MB 1727ms 10ms wasmtime 33.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1791ms 35ms 49.9MB 1760ms 13ms wasmtime 33.0.0
wasm 4.rs 1806ms 5.3ms 33.9MB 1783ms 10ms wasmtime 33.0.0
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 67.0MB 5877ms 77ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 170ms 3.5ms 20.1MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
wasm 3.rs 174ms 3.4ms 21.9MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
wasm 4.rs 195ms 7.7ms 19.9MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
acton 1.act 814ms 23ms 12.0MB 937ms 67ms actonc 0.25.0

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 3.rs 1143ms 6.3ms 20.3MB 1130ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 3.rs 81ms 1.2ms 18.6MB 70ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 220ms 2.2ms 8.0MB 197ms 33ms actonc 0.25.0
wasm 1.rs 416ms 1.6ms 19.6MB 403ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 77ms 8.3ms 6.0MB 57ms 20ms actonc 0.25.0
wasm 1.rs 114ms 2.6ms 19.0MB 100ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 4080ms 18ms 17.4MB 4067ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 345ms 3.4ms 17.4MB 333ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 232ms 1.5ms 18.0MB 217ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 31ms 0.6ms 18.0MB 20ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3.4ms 0.3ms 3.9MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.25.0
wasm 1.rs 6.2ms 0.3ms 15.3MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 91ms 1.0ms 17.7MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 253ms 2.5ms 17.6MB 240ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 47ms 0.4ms 17.5MB 37ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 8.rs 832ms 3.3ms 21.1MB 817ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 8.rs 43ms 1.0ms 18.2MB 30ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 869ms 4.9ms 41.9MB 847ms 10ms wasmtime 33.0.0
acton 1.act 3258ms 55ms 84.4MB 3627ms 60ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 193ms 3.5ms 26.0MB 177ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
acton 1.act 697ms 11ms 23.8MB 757ms 33ms actonc 0.25.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 404ms 2.3ms 18.1MB 390ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
wasm 2.rs 565ms 4.4ms 18.1MB 547ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 48ms 1.3ms 18.1MB 37ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
wasm 2.rs 64ms 1.1ms 18.4MB 50ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 373ms 4.4ms 22.9MB 357ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
wasm 1.rs 454ms 1.1ms 57.0MB 440ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 560.9MB 6633ms 100ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 94ms 1.3ms 27.7MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
wasm 2.rs 95ms 0.6ms 19.2MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
acton 1.act 2432ms 41ms 229.8MB 2987ms 43ms actonc 0.25.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 2212ms 2.7ms 21.0MB 2197ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
acton 1-m.act 3374ms 156ms 6.8MB 3427ms 2370ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 524ms 4.1ms 18.3MB 513ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
acton 1-m.act 965ms 82ms 6.1MB 883ms 747ms actonc 0.25.0

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 3519ms 16ms 17.8MB 3510ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 883ms 5.2ms 17.8MB 870ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 3597ms 4.4ms 17.7MB 3583ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
wasm 7.rs 4900ms 7.4ms 17.7MB 4887ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 905ms 1.7ms 18.2MB 890ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
wasm 7.rs 1229ms 2.0ms 17.7MB 1217ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 233ms 1.4ms 18.3MB 220ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0
wasm 7.rs 315ms 1.6ms 17.7MB 300ms 0ms wasmtime 33.0.0