[Python-Dev] FAT Python (lack of) performance (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 10:40:08 EST 2016


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:

rosuav at sikorsky:~$ gcc fib.c && time ./a.out 1134903170

real 0m9.104s user 0m9.064s sys 0m0.000s rosuav at sikorsky:~$ cat fib.c #include <stdio.h> unsigned long fib(unsigned long n) { if (n < 2) return n; return fib(n-2) + fib(n-1); } int main() { printf("%lu\n",fib(45)); } cough -O3 cough

Oh, I'm sorry. Let's try it again.

rosuav at sikorsky:~$ gcc -O3 fib.c && time ./a.out 1134903170

real 0m3.153s user 0m3.088s sys 0m0.052s

Cool! Seems to be linear. From which we can deduce that Python on my system was compiled at about -O275.

ChrisA



More information about the Python-Dev mailing list