The Computer Language
24.11 Benchmarks Game

Ruby yjit versus Lua fastest performance

How the programs are written matters! Always look at the source code.

If the fastest programs are hand-written vector instructions, does the host language matter? You might be more interested in the less optimised programs — more seconds, less gz source code.

fannkuch-redux
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Ruby yjit #2 139.05 21,120 1462 521.30
Lua 603.40 19,652 469 603.36
Ruby yjit 1,354.19 20,864 391 1,354.14
Ruby yjit #8 1,980.46 20,736 418 1,980.37
n-body
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Ruby yjit #3 186.79 20,864 1169 186.79
Ruby yjit #2 215.78 20,864 1143 215.77
Lua #2 220.08 19,656 1200 220.07
Lua #4 223.32 19,656 1312 223.30
Lua 262.10 19,656 1207 262.08
Ruby yjit #8 388.21 21,376 1160 388.20
Ruby yjit #7 704.57 21,120 1139 704.53
spectral-norm
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Lua 78.68 19,652 335 78.68
Ruby yjit #4 128.52 22,656 333 128.51
Ruby yjit #8 168.99 21,120 294 168.99
Ruby yjit #5 57.89 27,264 764 212.15
mandelbrot
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Lua #3 345.71 19,656 364 345.68
Lua 348.76 19,656 365 348.74
Lua #2 376.55 19,656 373 376.53
Lua #6 114.06 282,112 630 400.14
Ruby yjit #5 150.28 86,144 978 600.37
Ruby yjit #4 652.14 135,516 853 652.89
Ruby yjit #2 254.39 93,952 887 1,016.26
Ruby yjit #8 1,507.03 21,428 364 1,506.75
Ruby yjit #3 1,588.59 20,992 313 1,588.52
Ruby yjit #6   Failed  
Ruby yjit #7   Failed  
fasta
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Lua #3 24.08 19,652 1065 24.08
Lua #2 24.15 19,652 1065 24.14
Ruby yjit #6 31.90 120,832 1097 31.90
Ruby yjit #3 43.90 120,576 1035 43.90
Ruby yjit #5 90.76 23,168 1000 90.75
Ruby yjit #4 95.10 266,624 864 95.09
Ruby yjit #2 106.06 147,176 747 106.05
Ruby yjit #8 270.10 27,768 678 269.94
k-nucleotide
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Lua #2 97.17 596,604 620 97.16
Ruby yjit #2 252.78 181,808 426 252.58
Ruby yjit #3 277.67 207,596 546 277.88
Ruby yjit #7 300.36 392,960 792 298.86
Ruby yjit 86.11 171,696 583 302.91
Ruby yjit #8 788.25 572,736 529 787.84
reverse-complement
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Ruby yjit #4 5.88 2,510,920 608 11.51
Ruby yjit #5 14.12 1,623,336 301 14.11
Ruby yjit #3 8.95 4,235,052 490 17.34
Ruby yjit #2 27.45 1,001,920 272 27.45
Ruby yjit 18.31 5,141,976 521 35.91
Lua #2 41.12 2,654,652 560 41.10
Lua #5 41.96 2,169,636 758 41.96
Lua #4 49.35 1,030,016 600 49.33
binary-trees
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Ruby yjit #4 47.23 478,464 371 47.22
Ruby yjit 48.86 478,592 383 48.85
Ruby yjit #2 48.90 524,800 385 48.89
Ruby yjit #3 49.82 517,080 407 49.81
Ruby yjit #5 19.08 521,972 1016 54.19
Ruby yjit #8 130.97 478,720 494 130.95
Lua #2 141.55 956,672 418 141.52
Lua #3 83.71 809,856 690 167.26
Lua #4 48.65 956,672 670 180.27
pidigits
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Ruby yjit #5 1.50 1,011,072 494 1.50
Ruby yjit #2 3.10 2,431,144 666 3.09
Ruby yjit 17.73 104,576 524 17.72
* Lua #7   Failed  
* Lua #5   Failed  
* Lua   Failed  
regex-redux
source secs mem gz cpu secs
Ruby yjit #2 22.86 216,576 444 22.87
Ruby yjit #3 11.84 216,576 730 23.97
Ruby yjit #9 29.92 216,704 340 29.91
Lua   Failed  
Ruby yjit

ruby 3.3.5
(2024-09-03
revision ef084cc8f4)
+YJIT [x86_64-linux]

Lua

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