[Stackless] Ann: Stackless Psyco

[Christian Tismer]

On 4/17/10 12:57 PM, Nicholas Piël wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2010, at 12:44 AM, Christian Tismer wrote:
>    
>> Have you actually downloaded and tried?
>> I need testing, and especially I need crash reports :-)
>>      
> I am sorry, can't help you there. I was unable to crash it.
>    

Perfect!
> I just did some testing on a MBPro dual core 2.2Ghz with Debian Lenny and OSX 10.6. Was able to compile and run it flawlessly on both machines. I tested the following two things:
>
> - nbody benchmark (n=1.000.000)
>    http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=nbody&lang=pypy&id=1
>
> - Andrew Dalke's Ring Benchmark (100.000 tasklets)
>    http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2009/11/15/100000_tasklets.html
>
> The results are measured with 'time<bench>':
>
> Nbody         =  44,910sec
> Nbody w/Psyco =   9,184sec
> Ring          =   0,596sec
> Ring  w/Psyco =   1,524sec
>
>
> So, not only was I able to run it, it actually improves the performance, at least for the nbody benchmark. The ring benchmark, which relies heavily on soft-switching shows a performance degradation.
>    

Very good. The NBody example is giving expected acceleration.
Unfortunately, it does not use Stackless features.
But the results look like they are quite comparable to PyPy.

The Ring example goes more to GO speed, which is bad :-)
I will add a switch to Psyco not to fall back to hard switching,
but to step out of compilation when soft switching is going
to be used. I have no clue if it will compile anything, then,
but it should.

Note that I did not change anything in Stackless, yet. Just
made Psyco circumvent certain cases. This was just the
proof of concept. Now the real project starts!
> When i wrap the main loop of NBody in a tasklet, Psyco.full() is unable to automatically optimize it and i have to specifically bind Psyco to that object. I am not sure if this is expected behavior.

Ah, good to know. I will try to treat that case specially.
Psyco seems not to see the top level of tasklets.

Thank you so much for your effort!
>
> I am really looking forward to 64bit support and better switching support!
Hee hee, me too :-)

ciao - chris

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