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