
Oct. 1, 2012
1:41 a.m.
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> wrote:
Interesting results!
Another data point for the benchmarks that would be interesting is memory consumption of the python process during the runs.
In 3.3 a reasonable place to gather this would be to add a callback to the new gc.callbacks and save a snapshot of the process's memory usage before every collection to gather peak, average and median usage over the life of the process. 2.7 doesn't have this feature but there is a backport of this to 2.7 in the bugtracker.
I guess I should join speed@ :)
There is already support in perf.py to track memory: -m, --track_memory Track memory usage. This only works on Linux.