Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Odin 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
odin 1.odin 3460ms 34ms 49.6MB 3430ms 13ms odin 2024
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
odin 1.odin 329ms 60ms 7.5MB 320ms 0ms odin 2024
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

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 1.6ms 0.4ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms odin 2024
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

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 244ms 2.4ms 1.4MB 233ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 701ms 0.5ms 1.4MB 690ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 119ms 9.7ms 1.4MB 107ms 0ms odin 2024

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 384ms 2.2ms 4.6MB 367ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 20ms 0.6ms 1.4MB 10ms 0ms odin 2024

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1-i.odin 552ms 2.8ms 1.4MB 540ms 0ms odin 2024
odin 1.odin 627ms 4.8ms 1.4MB 613ms 0ms odin 2024
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
odin 1-i.odin 63ms 3.8ms 1.3MB 50ms 0ms odin 2024
odin 1.odin 68ms 2.0ms 1.4MB 57ms 0ms odin 2024
lua 4.lua 139ms 4.9ms 1.5MB 127ms 0ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
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
odin 1.odin 950ms 10ms 40.6MB 927ms 7ms odin 2024
odin 2.odin 1354ms 33ms 6.4MB 1340ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 169ms 5.7ms 11.4MB 157ms 0ms odin 2024
odin 2.odin 260ms 1.9ms 2.7MB 250ms 0ms odin 2024

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 11033ms 17ms 2.9MB 11017ms 0ms odin 2024
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
odin 1.odin 2767ms 10ms 2.1MB 2753ms 0ms odin 2024
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
odin 1.odin 698ms 2.3ms 1.8MB 687ms 0ms odin 2024
lua 1.lua 698ms 2.1ms 1.5MB 687ms 0ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
lua 1.lua 10267ms 17ms 1.7MB 10257ms 0ms lua 5.4.6