[Numpy-discussion] Really cruel draft of vbench setup for NumPy (.add.reduce benchmarks since 2011)
Yaroslav Halchenko
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Mon Jul 1 17:58:05 EDT 2013
FWIW -- updated plots with contribution from Julian Taylor
http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench-20130701/vb_vb_indexing.html#mmap-slicing
;-)
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> not quite the recommendations you expressed, but here is my ugly
> attempt to improve benchmarks coverage:
> http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench-20130701/index.html
> initially I also ran those ufunc benchmarks per each dtype separately,
> but then resulting webpage is loong which brings my laptop on its knees
> by firefox. So I commented those out for now, and left only "summary"
> ones across multiple datatypes.
> There is a bug in sphinx which forbids embedding some figures for
> vb_random "as is", so pardon that for now...
> I have not set cpu affinity of the process (but ran it at nice -10), so may be
> that also contributed to variance of benchmark estimates. And there probably
> could be more of goodies (e.g. gc control etc) to borrow from
> https://github.com/pydata/pandas/blob/master/vb_suite/test_perf.py which I have
> just discovered to minimize variance.
> nothing really interesting was pin-pointed so far, besides that
> - svd became a bit faster since few months back ;-)
> http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench-20130701/vb_vb_linalg.html
> - isnan (and isinf, isfinite) got improved
> http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench-20130701/vb_vb_ufunc.html#numpy-isnan-a-10types
> - right_shift got a miniscule slowdown from what it used to be?
> http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench-20130701/vb_vb_ufunc.html#numpy-right-shift-a-a-3types
> As before -- current code of those benchmarks collection is available
> at http://github.com/yarikoptic/numpy-vbench/pull/new/master
> if you have specific snippets you would like to benchmark -- just state them
> here or send a PR -- I will add them in.
> Cheers,
> On Tue, 07 May 2013, Daπid wrote:
> > On 7 May 2013 13:47, Sebastian Berg <sebastian at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > > Indexing/assignment was the first thing I thought of too (also because
> > > fancy indexing/assignment really could use some speedups...). Other then
> > > that maybe some timings for small arrays/scalar math, but that might be
> > > nice for that GSoC project.
> > Why not going bigger? Ufunc operations on big arrays, CPU and memory bound.
> > Also, what about interfacing with other packages? It may increase the
> > compiling overhead, but I would like to see Cython in action (say,
> > only last version, maybe it can be fixed).
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