[Stackless] Slowdown when running Numpy with Stackless?
Bin Huang
bin.arthur at gmail.com
Sun May 5 04:57:55 CEST 2013
Hi list,
I have observed slowdown when running Numpy with Stackless compared to
running it with CPython. The slowdown can be significant when problem size
is large. I wish someone in this mailing list can give me some hints on
this issue. I also post performance results and my source code here.
My platform is a 12-core dual-socket SMP machine running Ubuntu (Linux
kernel 3.2.0). On this platform, I have CPython 2.7.3, Numpy 1.6.1, and
Stackless Python 2.7.2 installed.
In order to test which Python implementation runs Numpy better, I wrote a
piece of code that simply performs matrix-matrix multiplication using one
of Numpy's functions. The source code is listed as follows:
*if __name__ == "__main__":
import numpy, random, time
import sys
size = int(sys.argv[1]) # For simplicity, we only test square matrix
matrix_a = numpy.matrix(numpy.random.randn(size,size))
matrix_b = numpy.matrix(numpy.random.randn(size,size))
start_time = time.time()
result = numpy.dot(matrix_a, matrix_b)
print '%0.3f ms' % ((time.time() - start_time)*1000.0)*
*
*
I run this code with both CPython and Stackless Python. Here is performance
numbers I got:
Problem size CPython Stackless Slowdown
256x256 14.112 ms 40.003 ms ~2.9X
512x512 109.965 ms 353.292 ms ~3.2X
1024x1024 871.251 ms 8771.153 ms ~10X
2048x2048 8214.799 ms 86479.872 ms ~10.5X
4096x4096 69790.130 ms 822476.506 ms ~11.8X
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Bin
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