[Python-Dev] Micro-benchmarks for function calls (PEP 576/579/580) (original) (raw)

Andrea Griffini agriff at tin.it
Wed Jul 11 03:19:44 EDT 2018

May be is something obvious but I find myself forgetting often about the fact that most modern CPUs can change speed (and energy consumption) depending on a moving average of CPU load.

If you don't disable this "green" feature and the benchmarks are quick then the result can have huge variations depending on exactly when and if the CPU switches to fast mode.

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 12:53 AM Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:

The pyperformance benchmark suite had micro benchmarks on function calls, but I removed them because they were sending the wrong signal. A function call by itself doesn't matter to compare two versions of CPython, or CPython to PyPy. It's also very hard to measure the cost of a function call when you are using a JIT compiler which is able to inline the code into the caller... So I removed all these stupid "micro benchmarks" to a dedicated Git repository: https://github.com/vstinner/pymicrobench

Sometimes, I add new micro benchmarks when I work on one specific micro optimization. But more generally, I suggest you to not run micro benchmarks and avoid micro optimizations :-) Victor 2018-07-10 0:20 GMT+02:00 Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at ugent.be>: > Here is an initial version of a micro-benchmark for C function calling: > > https://github.com/jdemeyer/callbench > > I don't have results yet, since I'm struggling to find the right options to > "perf timeit" to get a stable result. If somebody knows how to do this, help > is welcome. > > > Jeroen. _> ________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/vstinner%40redhat.com

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