Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Julia VS Lua 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.)

binarytrees

Input: 18

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 4.jl 1258ms 4.8ms 271.5MB 1430ms 57ms julia 1.11.9
lua 1.lua 6633ms 183ms 291.4MB 6527ms 87ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
lua 1.lua 16420ms 378ms 152.3MB 16370ms 30ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 4.jl 359ms 19ms 274.0MB 420ms 63ms julia 1.11.9
lua 1.lua 578ms 29ms 24.9MB 553ms 3ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
lua 1.lua 1185ms 23ms 17.5MB 1173ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 1550ms 12ms 258.8MB 4867ms 43ms julia 1.11.9

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 746ms 6.3ms 265.5MB 1783ms 53ms julia 1.11.9

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 7-m.jl 779ms 32ms 301.9MB 1830ms 90ms julia 1.11.9

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 7-m.jl 639ms 5.9ms 262.4MB 1400ms 70ms julia 1.11.9

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.6ms 0.3ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
lua 1.lua 2.2ms 0.4ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.6
julia 1.jl 140ms 4.0ms 226.2MB 106ms 48ms julia 1.11.9

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 8-m.jl 2502ms 43ms 314.2MB 4443ms 80ms julia 1.11.9

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 8-m.jl 1884ms 2.6ms 305.9MB 2873ms 70ms julia 1.11.9

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 7.jl 902ms 17ms 271.9MB 960ms 67ms julia 1.11.9
lua 4.lua 1312ms 8.1ms 1.6MB 1303ms 0ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
lua 4.lua 19839ms 364ms 1.8MB 19823ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 139ms 4.9ms 1.5MB 127ms 0ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
julia 7.jl 585ms 2.5ms 275.1MB 660ms 47ms julia 1.11.9
lua 4.lua 1941ms 5.9ms 1.8MB 1927ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 1.jl 664ms 3.2ms 250.6MB 710ms 47ms julia 1.11.9

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 1.jl 410ms 1.6ms 247.9MB 453ms 47ms julia 1.11.9

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 3.jl 812ms 13ms 233.8MB 913ms 43ms julia 1.11.9
julia 1.jl 1519ms 35ms 287.5MB 1510ms 140ms julia 1.11.9

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 3.jl 375ms 2.7ms 233.9MB 423ms 40ms julia 1.11.9
julia 1.jl 822ms 14ms 288.4MB 853ms 93ms julia 1.11.9

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 3585ms 4.8ms 243.3MB 13187ms 50ms julia 1.11.9
julia 3-m.jl 3821ms 2.0ms 273.2MB 13607ms 63ms julia 1.11.9
lua 1.lua 11058ms 4.0ms 2.6MB 11047ms 0ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
lua 1.lua 167091ms 2385ms 2.9MB 167067ms 3ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 1217ms 7.1ms 249.3MB 3887ms 53ms julia 1.11.9
julia 3-m.jl 1456ms 8.8ms 274.6MB 4257ms 63ms julia 1.11.9
lua 1.lua 2774ms 9.6ms 2.7MB 2760ms 0ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
lua 1.lua 41466ms 392ms 2.6MB 41447ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 643ms 4.4ms 241.6MB 1620ms 37ms julia 1.11.9
lua 1.lua 698ms 2.1ms 1.5MB 687ms 0ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
julia 3-m.jl 868ms 12ms 279.5MB 1930ms 70ms julia 1.11.9
lua 1.lua 10267ms 17ms 1.7MB 10257ms 0ms lua 5.4.6