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SSVM Performance

Performance benchmark for the SSVM against other WebAssembly runtimes

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The Second State Virtual Machine (SSVM) is an open source WebAssembly runtime optimized for server-side applications. The SSVM provides not only a WebAssembly runtime in Node.js, but also a compiler toolchain ssvmup for Rust and JavaScript.

Performance benchmarks

The benchmark scores are in seconds. The smaller the better. The 👍emoji marks the two best performing runtimes for each benchmark. The docker+native runtime is a simple Ubuntu Docker on an Ubuntu host.
SSVM❤️
Lucet / wasmtime
WAVM
V8
docker+native
nop 0
0.003👍
0.002👍
0.024
0.056
0.849
cat-sync 0
0.007👍
0.573
0.029👍
0.06
0.826
nbody-c 50M
3.716👍
4.611
3.753
3.408👍
4.128
nbody-cpp 50M
3.759👍
4.705
3.741👍
3.962
3.944
fannkuch-redux-c 12
28.06👍
53.104
28.477
29.285
24.459👍
mandelbrot-c 15K
10.347👍
28.97
12.072👍
18.062
16.05
binary-trees-c 18
1.328👍
2.91
1.612👍
2.002
17.191