Programming Language and compiler
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Wasm 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
wasm 5.rs 1766ms 30ms 36.0MB 1747ms 7ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 4.rs 1838ms 15ms 34.0MB 1817ms 10ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 3.rs 1880ms 33ms 50.0MB 1850ms 13ms wasmtime 34.0.1
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 67.0MB 5903ms 87ms actonc 0.26.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 167ms 1.1ms 20.1MB 150ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 4.rs 174ms 1.7ms 20.0MB 160ms 3ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 3.rs 179ms 2.1ms 22.1MB 163ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
acton 1.act 825ms 24ms 12.1MB 950ms 73ms actonc 0.26.0

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 3.rs 1111ms 16ms 20.4MB 1100ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 3.rs 77ms 0.4ms 19.1MB 67ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 227ms 8.3ms 8.0MB 210ms 30ms actonc 0.26.0
wasm 1.rs 419ms 6.5ms 19.5MB 403ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 84ms 19ms 5.9MB 70ms 10ms actonc 0.26.0
wasm 1.rs 113ms 0.1ms 19.0MB 100ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 4201ms 47ms 18.3MB 4190ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 349ms 0.3ms 18.3MB 337ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 235ms 3.7ms 18.2MB 220ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 32ms 1.2ms 18.2MB 20ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

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
wasm 1.rs 6.7ms 0.5ms 18.3MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 90ms 1.3ms 18.5MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 253ms 2.7ms 17.9MB 240ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 47ms 1.0ms 17.7MB 33ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 8.rs 828ms 2.0ms 21.5MB 817ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 8.rs 43ms 0.2ms 18.4MB 30ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 886ms 12ms 44.1MB 863ms 10ms wasmtime 34.0.1
acton 1.act 3298ms 25ms 84.6MB 3703ms 53ms actonc 0.26.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 193ms 1.1ms 24.1MB 177ms 3ms wasmtime 34.0.1
acton 1.act 725ms 34ms 23.8MB 793ms 33ms actonc 0.26.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 404ms 3.4ms 18.0MB 390ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 2.rs 562ms 0.4ms 18.3MB 550ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 49ms 1.1ms 18.1MB 37ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 2.rs 65ms 1.1ms 18.1MB 50ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 391ms 3.6ms 23.0MB 377ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 1.rs 526ms 14ms 57.2MB 510ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 560.9MB 6637ms 83ms actonc 0.26.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 94ms 2.6ms 27.8MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 2.rs 100ms 2.9ms 19.5MB 90ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
acton 1.act 2432ms 20ms 192.5MB 2923ms 63ms actonc 0.26.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 2137ms 4.5ms 19.2MB 2123ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
acton 1-m.act 3388ms 212ms 6.8MB 3370ms 2387ms actonc 0.26.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 509ms 3.9ms 18.3MB 493ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
acton 1-m.act 948ms 42ms 6.1MB 900ms 703ms actonc 0.26.0

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 3428ms 13ms 17.9MB 3413ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 880ms 8.0ms 18.5MB 867ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 3600ms 5.7ms 18.3MB 3587ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 7.rs 4895ms 4.2ms 18.3MB 4883ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 907ms 0.5ms 17.7MB 893ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 7.rs 1230ms 1.2ms 17.7MB 1220ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 234ms 1.4ms 17.6MB 220ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 7.rs 316ms 0.4ms 18.1MB 303ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1