Performance penalty for using classes?

[André Jonsson]

Seems to me that the C program is almost 10 times faster...


Miki Tebeka wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> Looks like the winning combination will be struct + psyco + 2.3 which
> <AMAZING> runs faster than the c test (compiled with -O3) </AMAZING>
> 
> [09:37] $time ./struct_test_psyco.py 
> Going 100000 iterations
> * Done
> real 0.25
> user 0.25
> sys 0.00
> [09:37] $time ./c_t
> c_test    c_test.c  
> [09:37] $time ./c_test
> Going 1000000 iterations
> * Done
> real 0.34
> user 0.29
> sys 0.04
> 
> Miki
> 
> --- c_test.c ---
   *snip*
> int
> main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> 	long iterations = 1000000;
> 	if (argc > 1) {
> 		iterations = atol(argv[1]);
> 	}
> 
> 	printf("Going %ld iterations\n", iterations);
> 	fflush(stdout);
> 	test_c(iterations);
> 	printf("* Done\n");
> 
> 	return 0;
> }
> --- c_test.c ---
> --- struct_test_psyco.py ---
*snip*
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     from sys import argv, stdout
>     if len(argv) > 1:
>         iterations = long(argv[1])
>     else:
>         iterations = 100000
> 
>     import psyco
>     for func in (make_dot, dot_x, dot_set_x, dot_y, dot_set_y, test_struct):
>         psyco.bind(func)
>     print 'Going %d iterations' % iterations
>     stdout.flush()
>     t = test_struct(iterations)
>     print '* Done'
> --- struct_test_psyco.py ---