Lua programs versus Java by benchmark task performance n-body source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lua 404.83 1,404 1305 404.76 0% 98% 3% 0% Java 22.17 33,040 1489 22.27 100% 1% 0% 1% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lua 184.25 513,992 613 183.19 81% 1% 1% 20% Java 8.75 385,056 1812 27.09 85% 72% 70% 85% fasta source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lua 50.08 2,920 1061 50.06 0% 7% 94% 0% Java 2.27 43,628 2473 5.93 51% 75% 57% 81% reverse-complement source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lua 75.98 2,943,804 553 75.07 53% 4% 2% 58% Java 3.15 680,424 2183 7.07 52% 70% 43% 63% mandelbrot source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lua 250.10 22,652 623 779.68 100% 72% 74% 67% Java 6.10 76,520 796 23.59 97% 98% 98% 96% spectral-norm source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lua 193.27 2,848 329 193.24 0% 0% 0% 100% Java 4.38 35,388 950 16.80 96% 96% 95% 97% binary-trees source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lua 468.12 2,312,236 412 467.62 59% 1% 1% 42% Java 8.39 933,808 835 28.28 82% 86% 84% 88% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lua 1,383.93 1,460 462 1,383.69 0% 100% 1% 0% Java 18.27 31,820 1282 72.06 99% 99% 98% 98% regex-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lua Bad Output Java 0.66 45,016 929 2.03 94% 72% 77% 71% pidigits source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Lua Failed Java 0.28 1,028 938 0.36 43% 11% 19% 66% Lua Lua 5.3.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Lua.org, PUC-Rio Java java 10 2018-03-20 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.3 (build 10+46) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.3 (build 10+46, mixed mode) vs Java vs Python