Just wondering, what's the performance for initialising a large
pyopencl.array in PyPy?
I'm asking because numpy.empty has abysmal performance on PyPy when you get
to large dimensions:
CPython:
>>> timeit('np.empty((5,), dtype=np.float64)', setup='import numpy as np',
number=1e6)
0.45080995559692383
>>> timeit('np.empty((500000,), dtype=np.float64)', setup='import numpy as
np', number=1e6)
0.5748040676116943
PyPy:
>>>> timeit('np.empty((5,), dtype=np.float64)', setup='import numpy as np',
number=1e6)
0.20131182670593262
>>>> timeit('np.empty((500000,), dtype=np.float64)', setup='import numpy as
np', number=1e3)
1.2475969791412354
PyPy is 2000 times slower than CPython when allocating 4MB worth of memory
O_O
On 31 May 2014 19:18, Andreas Kloeckner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tomasz Rybak <[email protected]> writes:
> > First - general comment.
> > I quite like an idea of changing PyOpenCL to work with PyPy.
> > Can I assume that this is just for PyOpenCL, and PyCUDA stays
> > Boost (and thus CPython) only for now?
>
> Yep, I have no plans currently to port PyCUDA to cffi. If someone
> decided to do that, I'd be supportive, but for now only PyOpenCL will
> support PyPy.
>
> > I do not know yet how packaging will look like for package
> > that both supports CPython and PyPy - I'll need to check that.
>
> To be safe, I think pyopencl-bpl and pyopencl-cffi should be two
> different packages, perhaps with a virtual package for dependencies to
> use. pyopencl-cffi works on both CPython and PyPy, so it'd be nice if
> the package exposed that. The two packages should conflict with each
> other because they both supply a module called "pyopencl".
>
> > As for testing in the wild - if I'm able to build PyPy
> > version I hope to be able to upload it to Debian experimental,
> > so interested Debian users could test it. I think that
> > some separate versioning for PyPy version will help here.
>
> Great. PyPy's numpy isn't packaged yet, and PyPy 2.3 (which fixes a lot
> of bugs, thus making all of this possible) is only a recent addition to
> the Debian archive.
>
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/pypy/numpy
>
> Andreas
>
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