SSVM Performance

Performance benchmark for the SSVM against other WebAssembly runtimes

This page is outdated. Please visit here for the most up-to-date content.
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

Artificial intelligence

Next - Function as a Service

Getting started

Last updated 12 months ago

	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