Re: Python startup time (was: Brainstorming for UDS-P)
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 01:08 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Montag, den 26.09.2011, 13:48 +0200 schrieb Sebastien Bacher: Le vendredi 23 septembre 2011 à 21:56 +0100, Allison Randal a écrit : Hi all, While we're all in the final preparations for Oneiric, it's round about that time in the cycle to start thinking about plans for the next cycle. What's on your mind? Some desktopish suggestions: - Boot and desktop performances (boot time, memory usage, power consumption) Moving applications from Python 2 to Python 3 will increase the startup time. I wrote a little script that runs n times hello world programs and takes the time. That reveals a startup time increase of factor two between Python 2 and 3. Running the hello world programs 100 times on my system with an Core i5 takes following time (in seconds): C: 0.04 D: 0.14 Haskell: 0.22 Bash:0.23 CShell: 0.25 Perl:0.27 PHP: 0.81 Python: 1.54 Python3: 3.22 Ruby:0.28 Shell: 0.10 ZShell: 0.22 C#: 2.55 If we cared sufficiently about C# startup time, I suspect we could cut this significantly by doing AOT compilation on install, same as we byte-compile python. Perhaps I should try some benchmarking… signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Python startup time (was: Brainstorming for UDS-P)
Am Montag, den 26.09.2011, 13:48 +0200 schrieb Sebastien Bacher: Le vendredi 23 septembre 2011 à 21:56 +0100, Allison Randal a écrit : Hi all, While we're all in the final preparations for Oneiric, it's round about that time in the cycle to start thinking about plans for the next cycle. What's on your mind? Some desktopish suggestions: - Boot and desktop performances (boot time, memory usage, power consumption) Moving applications from Python 2 to Python 3 will increase the startup time. I wrote a little script that runs n times hello world programs and takes the time. That reveals a startup time increase of factor two between Python 2 and 3. Running the hello world programs 100 times on my system with an Core i5 takes following time (in seconds): C: 0.04 D: 0.14 Haskell: 0.22 Bash:0.23 CShell: 0.25 Perl:0.27 PHP: 0.81 Python: 1.54 Python3: 3.22 Ruby:0.28 Shell: 0.10 ZShell: 0.22 C#: 2.55 Java:5.69 You can get your own measurements by running: bzr branch lp:~bdrung/+junk/startup-time cd startup-time make install all -- Benjamin Drung Debian Ubuntu Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
