Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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V 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
v 1.v 1604ms 9.3ms 101.7MB 1573ms 13ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
acton-tip 1-m.act 2062ms 22ms 38.6MB 3160ms 73ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 138ms 4.5ms 19.4MB 120ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
acton-tip 1.act 201ms 14ms 9.5MB 250ms 10ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1-m.act 14328ms 234ms 7.6MB 18857ms 13917ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
v 1-m.v 69596ms 1194ms 82.3MB 126717ms 147063ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1-m.act 882ms 3.4ms 12.3MB 1173ms 810ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
v 1-m.v 3419ms 88ms 17.6MB 6353ms 6917ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2

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
v 1.v 6596ms 54ms 30.9MB 6567ms 10ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2

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
v 1.v 1175ms 26ms 13.5MB 1157ms 3ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 2835ms 11ms 2.4MB 2820ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
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
v 1.v 248ms 15ms 2.4MB 237ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
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
v 1.v 877ms 9.0ms 2.5MB 663ms 200ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
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
v 1.v 92ms 2.6ms 2.5MB 60ms 13ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
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
v 1.v 2.1ms 0.6ms 2.3MB 0ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
acton-tip 1.act 3.9ms 0.4ms 5.9MB 0ms 0ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 897ms 19ms 5.1MB 1170ms 130ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
v 1.v 11561ms 129ms 3.5MB 11530ms 10ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 2718ms 73ms 5.2MB 3570ms 470ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
v 1.v 35304ms 114ms 3.5MB 35217ms 63ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 439ms 8.1ms 4.0MB 517ms 113ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
v 1.v 788ms 3.2ms 2.9MB 773ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 569ms 4.3ms 2.4MB 557ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
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
v 1.v 61ms 1.7ms 2.4MB 50ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
acton-tip 1.act 134ms 1.8ms 4.0MB 130ms 10ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 1130ms 3.7ms 61.2MB 1107ms 3ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
v 2.v 1606ms 14ms 7.2MB 1593ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
acton-tip 1.act 3013ms 34ms 561.4MB 3360ms 73ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 214ms 4.8ms 19.5MB 197ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
v 2.v 357ms 2.7ms 3.7MB 343ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
acton-tip 1.act 715ms 1.0ms 157.3MB 733ms 27ms 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
v 2.v 10837ms 116ms 4.6MB 10803ms 20ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2

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
v 2.v 2606ms 68ms 4.6MB 2590ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1-m.act 91253ms 1460ms 708.4MB 199957ms 1813ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
v 1.v 101272ms 2126ms 211.8MB 101230ms 17ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1-m.act 7551ms 187ms 122.9MB 14893ms 500ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
v 1.v 10028ms 223ms 26.2MB 10013ms 3ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 11048ms 5.2ms 3.2MB 11037ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
acton-tip 1.act 11288ms 25ms 5.8MB 11283ms 3ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 2763ms 3.5ms 3.0MB 2753ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
acton-tip 1.act 2892ms 8.2ms 4.8MB 2887ms 0ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 697ms 6.9ms 2.7MB 683ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
acton-tip 1.act 737ms 7.4ms 12.2MB 730ms 0ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45