[IronPython] [Simpy-users] RE: SimPy on IronPython timing test

[Klaus Muller]

Dino,
Fully understood! IronPython looks good for such an early version!

I am looking forward to future releases of IronPython for performance, but
continue trying the beta out with SimPy in the meantime.

Klaus Müller

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simpy-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:simpy-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of 
> Dino Viehland
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 6:01 PM
> To: Discussion of IronPython; 
> simpy-users at lists.sourceforge.net; 'Simpy-Developer List'
> Subject: [Simpy-users] RE: [IronPython] SimPy on IronPython 
> timing test
> 
> Thanks for the report Klaus.  Currently we're mostly focused 
> on correctness but later in the beta cycle we're going to 
> come back and target perf pretty heavily.  I've gone ahead 
> and filed this in our bug database so we won't miss it when 
> we get to that point.
> 
> 
> Do you want to help develop Dynamic languages on CLR? 
> (http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobI
> D=6D4754DE-11F0-45DF-8B78-DC1B43134038)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com 
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Muller
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 10:57 PM
> To: simpy-users at lists.sourceforge.net; 'Simpy-Developer List'
> Cc: users at lists.ironpython.com
> Subject: [IronPython] SimPy on IronPython timing test
> 
> All:
> I have run a first simple benchmark to compare SimPy under 
> IronPython with SimPy under CPython. I ran the following program:
> 
> from SimPy.Simulation import *
> import time
> 
> class Dum(Process):
>     def run(self):
>         yield hold,self,3
> initialize()
> nrProcs=int(raw_input("Nr of processes?"))
> processes=[Dum("Dum%s"%x) for  x in range(1,nrProcs)]
> 
> for i in range(nrProcs):
>     p=Dum("%s"%i)
>     activate(p,p.run(),at=i)
> 
> tStart=(time.clock(),time.time())
> simulate(until=2*nrProcs)
> print "Ran in %s seconds for %s 
> processes"%((time.clock()-tStart[0],time.time()-tStart[1]),nrProcs)
> raw_input("Hit any key . .  .")
> 
> Here are the results:
> 
> Nr processes=10000
> ------------------
> IronPython: 2.06 seconds
> CPython: 0.5 seconds
> 
> Nr processes=50000
> ------------------
> IronPython: 15.53 seconds
> CPython: 3.67 seconds
> 
> At this moment, IronPython is clearly way slower than CPython 
> on this benchmark.
> 
> Clearly, it is early days for IronPython (this was run under 
> beta release 2) and its developers will surely still optimize 
> its performance a lot.
> 
> If Microsoft actually support IronPython, this will be an 
> important SimPy platform in the future and we will have to 
> watch its further development. 
> 
> Klaus Müller
> 
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