Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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V 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
v 1.v 1604ms 9.3ms 101.7MB 1573ms 13ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
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
v 1.v 138ms 4.5ms 19.4MB 120ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
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

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
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
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
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
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

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

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

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

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
v 1.v 2.1ms 0.6ms 2.3MB 0ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
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
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
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
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
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
v 1.v 61ms 1.7ms 2.4MB 50ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
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
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

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

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
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
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
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
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
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
v 1.v 2763ms 3.5ms 3.0MB 2753ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
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
v 1.v 697ms 6.9ms 2.7MB 683ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.5.2
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