[Python-Dev] PATCH submitted: Speed up + for string concatenation, now as fast as "".join(x) idiom

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Mon Oct 9 11:30:25 CEST 2006


Larry Hastings wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> skip at pobox.com wrote:
>>   
>>> MAL's pybench would probably be better for this presuming it does some
>>> addition with string operands.
>>>     
>> or stringbench.
>>   
> 
> I ran 'em, and they are strangely consistent with pystone.
> 
> With concat, stringbench is ever-so-slightly faster overall.  "172.82" 
> vs "174.85" for the "ascii" column, I guess that's in seconds.  I'm just 
> happy it's not slower.  (I only ran stringbench once; it seems to take 
> *forever*).
> 
> I ran pybench three times for each build.  The slowest concat overall 
> time was still 2.9% faster than the fastest release time.  
> "ConcatStrings" is a big winner, at around 150% faster; since the test 
> doesn't *do* anything with the concatenated values, it never renders the 
> concatenation objects, so it does a lot less work.  
> "CreateStringsWithConcat" is generally 18-19% faster, as expected.  
> After that, the timings are all over the place, but some tests were 
> consistently faster: "CompareInternedStrings" was 8-12% faster, 
> "DictWithFloatKeys" was 9-11% faster, "SmallLists" was 8-15% faster, 
> "CompareLongs" was 6-10% faster, and "PyMethodCalls" was 4-6% faster.  
> (These are all comparing the "average run-time" results, though the 
> "minimum run-time" results were similar.)

When comparing results, please look at the minimum runtime.
The average times are just given to indicate how much the mintime
differs from the average of all runs.

> I still couldn't tell you why my results are faster.  I swear on my 
> mother's eyes I didn't touch anything major involved in 
> "DictWithFloatKeys", "SmallLists", or "CompareLongs".  I didn't touch 
> the compiler settings, so that shouldn't be it.  I acknowledge not only 
> that it could all be a mistake, and that I don't know enough about it to 
> speculate.//

Depending on what you changed, it is possible that the layout of
the code in memory better fits your CPU architecture.

If however the speedups are not consistent across several runs of
pybench, then it's likely that you have some background activity
going on on the machine which causes a slowdown in the unmodified
run you chose as basis for the comparison.

Just to make sure: you are using pybench 2.0, right ?

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