[IronPython] Sin and Sqrt performance (Chris Trimble)

Chris Trimble trimble at pobox.com
Tue Apr 18 01:33:46 CEST 2006


On 4/17/06, Dino Viehland <dinov at exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:
>   Changing the code to do j = j + xyz yields about a 25% perf
> improvement for me though.

Thanks for looking into this Dino.  Oddly, I get the opposite result
for this case!  I ran the test 3x with j = j + and 3x with j +=.  I
got:

j = j + .... 5.719s  5.656s  5.547s
j +=  .....  5.625s  5.578s  5.406s

Is there an optimization flag I should be using?


> Which brings me back to the cost of being dynamic.
> All of these small improvements (not that 35% is something
> to look down at) won't get us that close to C#'s performance.
> What would be better here for the long-term is adding type
> inference support to IronPython so we can do this all very fast,
> and fall back to the slow path if things change due to being dynamic.

Given what you said here I decided to give Boo's type inference a try
and see what it came up with.  At the end of the message is my (hacked
up) code in Boo.  Odd result again... the resulting timing comes out
to be _faster_ than C# (~4ms compared to 10ms for C#).  Could be Boo
might be running on CLR 1.1 while C# is running on 2.0, haven't
bothered to verify.  Anyway, unless I'm doing something horribly
wrong, it's a good datapoint.

Thanks again for the explanation, it's been very helpful... and great
work on IP!

 - Chris

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def py_fpfunc_test(reps as int):
    j = 0.0
    i = 0
    while i < reps:
        j += System.Math.Sin( j )
        j += System.Math.Sqrt( j )
        j += 2.72392032032;
        i += 1
    print j

def do_all_timing():
    start = System.DateTime.Now
    py_fpfunc_test(5000000)
    end = System.DateTime.Now
    print("{0} ({1} reps): {2}" % ("fpfunc", 5000000,
(end.Ticks-start.Ticks) / 1000000.0))

do_all_timing()



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