Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Lua VS C# 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
csharp 1.cs 1295ms 11ms 187.1MB 1320ms 160ms dotnet 9.0.318
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
csharp 1.cs 287ms 27ms 55.0MB 213ms 33ms dotnet 9.0.318
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
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
csharp 1.cs 46ms 3.5ms 24.6MB 30ms 2ms dotnet 9.0.318

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 2.cs 904ms 34ms 135.4MB 880ms 93ms dotnet 9.0.318
csharp 1.cs 1035ms 40ms 163.4MB 1010ms 123ms dotnet 9.0.318
lua 1.lua 15068ms 464ms 183.4MB 14980ms 70ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
lua 1.lua 18968ms 144ms 107.9MB 18917ms 33ms lua 5.4.6

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 2.cs 304ms 5.8ms 74.7MB 257ms 57ms dotnet 9.0.318
csharp 1.cs 337ms 4.6ms 93.7MB 303ms 57ms dotnet 9.0.318
lua 1.lua 2066ms 2.3ms 36.3MB 2040ms 7ms luajit 2.1.1703358377
lua 1.lua 3347ms 133ms 28.8MB 3327ms 3ms lua 5.4.6

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 8.cs 783ms 1.5ms 29.6MB 760ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.318
csharp 9.cs 997ms 4.7ms 29.6MB 967ms 17ms dotnet 9.0.318
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
csharp 8.cs 159ms 7.2ms 30.1MB 140ms 3ms dotnet 9.0.318
csharp 9.cs 228ms 3.1ms 29.9MB 203ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.318
lua 4.lua 1941ms 5.9ms 1.8MB 1927ms 0ms lua 5.4.6

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 3-m.cs 5928ms 20ms 33.5MB 23127ms 17ms dotnet 9.0.318
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
csharp 3-m.cs 1536ms 1.6ms 34.0MB 5793ms 13ms dotnet 9.0.318
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
csharp 3-m.cs 449ms 3.7ms 33.3MB 1487ms 17ms dotnet 9.0.318
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