[Pythonmac-SIG] intel compiler

[Dan White]

Hi,

when my MacBookPro comes back from hospital, I can try the pystone  
benchmarks
with intel and gcc

.... one of my processor fans died..

Dan


On Aug 28, 2006, at 11:00 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On 28-aug-2006, at 19:42, Perry Smith wrote:
>
>> Perhaps an email to gcc-help would get the info that you need.  I  
>> could be the go-between but I don't feel like I know enough to  
>> convey your questions.
>
> IMHO only benchmarks will help us here. At the very minimal I'd  
> like to know how pystone compares on a python build with the Intel  
> compiler and the version of GCC that ships with Xcode. If the  
> difference is significant it could be useful to spent more time on  
> doing other benchmarks as well and maybe eventually find a way to  
> add support for the intel compiler to distutils (and if the license  
> allows that to distribute a universal build of python where the  
> intel part is build using the intel compiler).
>
> It is pretty unlikely at the moment that I'll do the benchmarking,  
> as python is fast enough for my needs and I don't have much time to  
> work on this.
>
> Ronald
>
>>
>> Perry Smith
>> Ease Software, Inc.
>> pedz at easesoftware.com
>> http://www.easesoftware.com
>>
>> AIX Kernel Level Consulting Services and SATA Products
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 28, 2006, at 3:28 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 28-aug-2006, at 10:21, Dan White wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Could someone who is using the Intel compiler say something about
>>>>> the performance of resulting binaries compared to binaries created
>>>>> by GCC. I'm obviously mostly interested in the speed of the python
>>>>> interpreter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ronald
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> for C++ code which is doing recursive / parallelisable tasks
>>>> with processor optimisation flag -xP (for an intel core duo chip)
>>>> it is faster than gcc4 with optimisation for auto vectorisation and
>>>> other speed optimisations
>>>>
>>>> At least in my case. Of course mileage might vary...
>>>> I suggest its at least worth running some benchmarks
>>>> so wee what differece it makes for various kinds of tasks in  
>>>> python.
>>>
>>> I was hoping that someone had already done that :-). Having a  
>>> look at
>>> the intel compiler is somewhere on my todo list, ever since a  
>>> college
>>> noticed that he got higher pystones in Windows running in Parallels
>>> than running natively on the same mac.
>>>
>>> Ronald
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>>
>

Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
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