Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Swift 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.)

binarytrees

Input: 18

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1-m.act 2062ms 22ms 38.6MB 3160ms 73ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
swift 1.swift 4602ms 12ms 53.9MB 4573ms 10ms swift 6.1.3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 201ms 14ms 9.5MB 250ms 10ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
swift 1.swift 395ms 8.4ms 11.8MB 373ms 0ms swift 6.1.3

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 1.swift 2632ms 45ms 5.7MB 2617ms 0ms swift 6.1.3
acton-tip 1.act 23248ms 106ms 4.0MB 27317ms 7127ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 1.swift 226ms 3.4ms 5.7MB 210ms 0ms swift 6.1.3
acton-tip 1.act 1836ms 15ms 4.3MB 2147ms 547ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 3-m.swift 253ms 4.8ms 23.1MB 573ms 13ms swift 6.1.3
acton-tip 1.act 1163ms 17ms 13.2MB 1090ms 167ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 3.swift 54ms 1.7ms 16.7MB 47ms 3ms swift 6.1.3
acton-tip 1.act 141ms 7.0ms 21.2MB 120ms 17ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 1.swift 3.0ms 0.3ms 6.8MB 0ms 0ms swift 6.1.3
acton-tip 1.act 3.9ms 0.4ms 5.9MB 0ms 0ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 2-m.swift 2303ms 20ms 75.6MB 8380ms 40ms swift 6.1.3
acton-tip 1.act 45269ms 137ms 177.1MB 60153ms 433ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 2-m.swift 465ms 44ms 60.7MB 1023ms 27ms swift 6.1.3
acton-tip 1.act 4678ms 30ms 67.7MB 6573ms 183ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 7.swift 576ms 3.9ms 10.5MB 563ms 0ms swift 6.1.3
acton-tip 1.act 1280ms 12ms 4.0MB 1340ms 107ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 7.swift 71ms 8.8ms 10.4MB 60ms 0ms swift 6.1.3
acton-tip 1.act 134ms 1.8ms 4.0MB 130ms 10ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1-m.act 3543ms 38ms 8.2MB 4797ms 1453ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
swift 1.swift 12008ms 57ms 8.3MB 11833ms 153ms swift 6.1.3

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
swift 1.swift 2719ms 13ms 8.0MB 2697ms 3ms swift 6.1.3