[pypy-dev] Update on MyHDL benchmarks with pypy

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Jan Decaluwe <jan at jandecaluwe.com> wrote:

> On 06/16/2012 12:35 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski
>> <fijall at gmail.com <mailto:fijall at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Jan Decaluwe <jan at jandecaluwe.com
>> <mailto:jan at jandecaluwe.com>> wrote:
>>
>> For your info.
>>
>> Since pypy 1.6, the benchmarks for MyHDL have stagnated or become
>> slightly worse (within 15%).
>>
>> Still, the results are much better than the average speedup over the
>> pypy set of benchmarks. I guess it is to be expected that
>> improvements depend heavily on a particular application.
>>
>> http://myhdl.org/doku.php/__**performance?&#historical_data<http://myhdl.org/doku.php/__performance?&#historical_data>
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>> <http://myhdl.org/doku.php/**performance?&#historical_data<http://myhdl.org/doku.php/performance?&#historical_data>
>> >
>>
>> Jan Decaluwe
>>
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>> I would put the 15% to "noise" honestly, but well. I'm not incredibly
>> surprised, our optimization are more of the "a bit here a bit there"
>> kind these days. Maybe the next one :)
>>
>> Cheers, fijal
>>
>>
>> Anyway, I'm pleasantly surprised about the high expectations we
>> generate :) 1.6 was about 9 months ago and people already complain
>> there were no significant speed improvements since then :)))
>>
>
> For the record: no complaints at all. I am very grateful
> and satisfied with the status. This is a datapoint for those
> interested, nothing more and nothing less.
>
>
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>    World-class digital design: http://www.easics.com
>

I did not read it as complaint. Speaking of which - how feasible would be
to add a myhdl benchmark (or a family) to the pypy benchmark suite? It
seems like "a large python application" kind of use case.
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