# SSVM Performance

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The Second State Virtual Machine ([SSVM](https://github.com/second-state/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](https://github.com/second-state/ssvmup) for Rust and JavaScript.

#### Performance benchmarks

{% hint style="info" %}
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.
{% endhint %}

|                     | [SSVM](https://github.com/second-state/SSVM)❤️ | [Lucet](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/lucet) / [wasmtime](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime) | [WAVM](https://github.com/WAVM/WAVM) | [V8](https://github.com/v8/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        |


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