[Python-Dev] Computed Goto dispatch for Python 2

[Nick Coghlan]

On 28 May 2015 at 22:00, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 05/28/2015 02:17 AM, Parasa, Srinivas Vamsi wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> This is Vamsi from Server Scripting Languages Optimization team at Intel Corporation.
>>
>> Would like to submit a request to enable the computed goto based dispatch in Python 2.x (which happens to be enabled by default in Python 3 given its performance benefits on a wide range of workloads). We talked about this patch with Guido and he encouraged us to submit a request on Python-dev (email conversation with Guido shown at the bottom of this email).
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>> Attached is the computed goto patch (along with instructions to run) for Python 2.7.10 (based on the patch submitted by Jeffrey Yasskin  at http://bugs.python.org/issue4753). We built and tested this patch for Python 2.7.10 on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server, Intel Xeon - Haswell EP CPU with 18 cores, hyper-threading off, turbo off).
>>
>> Below is a summary of the performance we saw on the "grand unified python benchmarks" suite (available at https://hg.python.org/benchmarks/). We made 3 rigorous runs of the following benchmarks. In each rigorous run, a benchmark is run 100 times with and without the computed goto patch. Below we show the average performance boost for the 3 rigorous runs.
>>
>> Python 2.7.10 (original) vs Computed Goto performance
>> Benchmark
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> As Gregory pointed out, there are other options to build the interpreter, and we
> are missing data how these compare with your patch.

That's shifting the goal posts: suggesting that we should optimise
Python 2 differently from the way we optimised Python 3 isn't a
reasonable request to make in the context of a backporting proposal.

Regards,
Nick.

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