[Numpy-discussion] fresh performance hits: numpy.linalg.pinv >30% slowdown

[Nathaniel Smith]

The biggest ~recent change in master's linalg was the switch to gufunc back
ends - you might want to check for that event in your commit log.
On 19 Jul 2013 23:08, "Yaroslav Halchenko" <lists at onerussian.com> wrote:

> I have just added a few more benchmarks, and here they come
>
> http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench/vb_vb_linalg.html#numpy-linalg-pinv-a-float32
> it seems to be very recent so my only check based on 10 commits
> didn't pick it up yet so they are not present in the summary table.
>
> could well be related to 80% faster det()? ;)
>
> norm was hit as well a bit earlier, might well be within these commits:
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/compare/24a0aa5...29dcc54
> I will rerun now benchmarking for the rest of commits (was running last
> in the day iirc)
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>
> > and to put so far reported findings into some kind of automated form,
> > please welcome
>
> >
> http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench/#benchmarks-performance-analysis
>
> > This is based on a simple 1-way anova of last 10 commits and some point
> > in the past where 10 other commits had smallest timing and were
> significantly
> > different from the last 10 commits.
>
> > "Possible recent" is probably too noisy and not sure if useful -- it
> should
> > point to a closest in time (to the latest commits) diff where a
> > significant excursion from current performance was detected.  So per se
> it has
> > nothing to do with the initial detected performance hit, but in some
> cases
> > seems still to reasonably locate commits hitting on performance.
>
> > Enjoy,
> --
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