Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Results for 38 of 40 languages from this run on actest1.

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Elixir VS acton tip benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Sep 27 2026, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][4 cores] Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3687U CPU @ 2.10GHz (Model 58)

* -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.)

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
elixir 1.ex 5705ms 28ms 95.3MB 6130ms 317ms elixir 15.2.7
acton-tip 1-m.act 14328ms 234ms 7.6MB 18857ms 13917ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
elixir 1.ex 687ms 26ms 91.2MB 853ms 163ms elixir 15.2.7
acton-tip 1-m.act 882ms 3.4ms 12.3MB 1173ms 810ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 270ms 7.0ms 7.4MB 257ms 17ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
elixir 1.ex timeout (120s) — — — — elixir 15.2.7

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 92ms 11ms 13.3MB 80ms 10ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
elixir 1.ex 18934ms 249ms 89.8MB 19680ms 660ms elixir 15.2.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 3.9ms 0.4ms 5.9MB 0ms 0ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
elixir 1.ex 313ms 17ms 86.7MB 366ms 88ms elixir 15.2.7

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
elixir 1.ex 2709ms 78ms 89.2MB 3030ms 930ms elixir 15.2.7
acton-tip 1-m.act 3543ms 38ms 8.2MB 4797ms 1453ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1-m.act 893ms 20ms 7.3MB 1113ms 420ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
elixir 1-m.ex 962ms 17ms 87.7MB 1167ms 357ms elixir 15.2.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 11288ms 25ms 5.8MB 11283ms 3ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
elixir 1.ex 157109ms 510ms 95.5MB 157083ms 160ms elixir 15.2.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 2892ms 8.2ms 4.8MB 2887ms 0ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
elixir 1.ex 38614ms 362ms 99.3MB 38603ms 207ms elixir 15.2.7

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 737ms 7.4ms 12.2MB 730ms 0ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
elixir 1.ex 9814ms 27ms 90.8MB 9833ms 120ms elixir 15.2.7