Concerns about performance w/Python, Pysco on Pentiums

[Michael Hudson]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> > Still this sounds like memory is the bottleneck ... You could try to look
> > at the cache misses for your process, if that is at all possible.
> 
> Not knowing that much about Linux I'd be at a loss to do this on my
> own.  Any suggestions for where to look?

Googling for cachegrind might lead to enlightenment.  It comes with
valgrind.  Interpreting its output is probably something of a black
art.

Cheers,
M.

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