[Pythonmac-SIG] Pystone numbers for different Macs...

[Daniel Lord]

I ran the test  on my 1st Gen Quad Core ( 2 x Quad-core 3.0 GHz, 13GB  
RAM) and was a bit surprised to see  little improvement over the Core  
Duo numbers.

63019.7 pystones/second

I am assuming the GIL is limiting  threading and therefore I am really  
running on one or two cores--hence the tangible improvement is just  
CPU speed: from 2.33 GHz to 3.0 GHz and a bit of the memory bandwidth  
increase as well.

This is the 32-bit number, I'll find some time to try 64-bit--but  
first want to make sure it doesn't mess up my system as I am using  
Apple Python 2.5.1 exclusively right now and want to avoid the split  
brain problem.

Daniel

On Jan 20, 2008, at 1:27 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On 19 Jan, 2008, at 21:43, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>
>>
>> My Powerbook G4 is getting rather long-in-the-tooth.  It's display is
>> starting to act up, so I think I'm going to buy a new Mac something  
>> in the
>> fairly near future, but I'm not yet sure what.  To that end, I've  
>> started a
>> table of pystone numbers for Macs on the Python wiki:
>>
>>   http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython/MacModelPerformance
>>
>> If you could help by adding some rows to the table, especially for  
>> current
>> MacBook, MacBook Pro or (in the near future, MacBook Air) models, I'd
>> appreciate it.
>
> I've posted some numbers as well, which in itself doesn't warrent an  
> e-mail. What is interesting though is the difference between 32-bit  
> and 64-bit code:
>
> Python 2.5.2a0 (60124)
>
> 32-bit: 52083
> 64-bit: 60871
>
> 64-bit code is significantly faster here (all of this on a MacBook  
> Pro 2.33Ghz/3GByte)
>
> Ronald
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- 
>> Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/
>>
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