[Python-Dev] Re: Who cares about the performance of these opcodes? (original) (raw)

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Tue Mar 9 12:20:31 EST 2004


On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:59:52 -0500, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

I personally don't think it'll help much, if the goal is to reduce cache misses. After all, the code is all still there. But, it should not do

For a planned PyCon lightning talk, I'm benchmarking various combinations of optimizer options. One interesting result: CVS Python gets 25997 pystones on my machine when compiled with -O3 (the default), but 26707 when compiled with gcc's -Os flag. -Os optimizes for size, running the subset of the -O2 optimizations that don't increase code size.

The test script is http://www.amk.ca/files/misc/python-opt-benchmark.sh, should anyone want to run it. I'm now trying to figure out if -mregparm makes any significant difference to Python's performance.

--amk



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