Hello all,

I've ported Resolver One to run on IronPython 2 Beta 4 to check for any potential problems (we will only do a *proper* port once IP 2 is out of beta).

The basic porting was straightforward and several bugs have been fixed since IP 2 B3 - many thanks to the IronPython team.

The good news is that Resolver One is only 30-50% slower than Resolver One on IronPython 1! (It was 300 - 400% slower on top of IP 2 B3.) Resolver One is fairly heavily optimised around the performance hotspots of IronPython 1, so we expect to have to do a fair bit of profiling and refactoring to readjust to the performance profile of IP 2.

Having said that, there are a few oddities (and the areas that slow down vary tremendously depending on which spreadsheet we use to benchmark it - making it fairly difficult to track down the hotspots).

We have one particular phase of spreadsheet calculation that takes 0.4seconds on IP1 and around 6 seconds on IP2, so I have been doing some micro-benchmarking to try and identify the hotspot. I've certainly found part of the problem.

For those that are interested I've attached the very basic microbenchmarks I've been using. The nice thing is that in *general* IP2 does outperform IP1.

The results that stand out in the other direction are:

Using sets with custom classes (that define '__eq__', '__ne__' and '__hash__') seems to be 6 times slower in IronPython 2.

Adding lists together is about 50% slower.

Defining functions seems to be 25% slower and defining old style classes about 33% slower. (Creating instances of new style classes is massively faster though - thanks!)

The code I used to test sets (sets2.py) is as follows:

from System import DateTime

class Thing(object):
   def __init__(self, val):
       self.val = val
def __eq__(self, other):
       return self.val == other.val

   def __neq__(self):
       return not self.__eq__(other)
def __hash__(self):
       return hash(self.val)
def test(s):
   a = set()
   for i in xrange(100000):
       a.add(Thing(i))
       a.add(Thing(i+1))
       Thing(i) in a
       Thing(i+2) in a
   return (DateTime.Now -s).TotalMilliseconds
s = DateTime.Now
print test(s)


Interestingly the time taken is exactly the same if I remove the definition of '__hash__'.

The full set of results below:

Results in milliseconds with a granularity of about 15ms and so an accuracy of +/- ~60ms.
All testing with 10 000 000 operations unless otherwise stated.

Empty loop (overhead):
   IP1: 421.9
   IP2: 438
Create instance newstyle:
   IP1: 20360
   IP2: 1109
Create instance oldstyle:
   IP1: 3766
   IP2: 3359
Function call:
   IP1: 937
   IP2: 906
Create function: 25% slower
   IP1: 2828
   IP2: 3640
Define newstyle (1 000 000):
   IP1: 42047
   IP2: 20484
Define oldstyle (1 000 000): 33% slower
   IP1: 1781
   IP2: 2671

Comparing (== and !=):
   IP1: 278597
   IP2: 117662
Sets (with numbers):
   IP1: 37095
   IP2: 30860

Lists (10 000): 50% slower
   IP1: 10422
   IP2: 16109

Recursion (10 000):
   IP1: 1125
   IP2: 1000
Sets2 (100 000): 600% slower
   IP1: 4984
   IP2: 30547


I'll be doing more as the 600% slow down for sets and the 50% slow down for lists accounts for some of the dependency analysis problem but not all of it.

Many Thanks

Michael Foord
--
http://www.resolversystems.com
http://www.ironpythoninaction.com



from System import DateTime

s = DateTime.Now

class Value(object):
    def __init__(self, val):
        self.val = val
    
    def __eq__(self, other):
        return self.val == other.val
        
    def __neq__(self, other):
        return self.val != other.val

def test(s):
    for i in xrange(10000000):
        res = Value(i) == Value(i + 1)
        other = Value(i) != Value(i)
    return (DateTime.Now -s).TotalMilliseconds

print test(s)

from System import DateTime

s = DateTime.Now



def test(s):
    for i in xrange(10000000):
        def f():
            pass
    return (DateTime.Now -s).TotalMilliseconds

print test(s)

from System import DateTime

s = DateTime.Now

class NewStyle(object):
    pass


def test(s):
    for i in xrange(10000000):
        NewStyle()
    return (DateTime.Now -s).TotalMilliseconds

print test(s)

from System import DateTime

s = DateTime.Now

class OldStyle:
    pass


def test(s):
    for i in xrange(10000000):
        OldStyle()
    return (DateTime.Now -s).TotalMilliseconds

print test(s)
from System import DateTime

s = DateTime.Now

def test(s):
    for i in xrange(1000000):
        class NewStyle(object):
            pass
    return (DateTime.Now -s).TotalMilliseconds

print test(s)
from System import DateTime

s = DateTime.Now

def test(s):
    for i in xrange(1000000):
        class OldStyle:
            pass
    return (DateTime.Now -s).TotalMilliseconds

print test(s)

from System import DateTime

s = DateTime.Now

class NewStyle(object):
    pass


def test(s):
    for i in xrange(10000000):
        NewStyle()
    return (DateTime.Now -s).TotalMilliseconds

print test(s)

from System import DateTime

s = DateTime.Now

def f():
    pass

def test(s):
    for i in xrange(10000000):
        f()
    return (DateTime.Now -s).TotalMilliseconds

print test(s)
from System import DateTime

def fact(n):
    if n < 2:
        return 1
    return n + fact(n-1)

def test(s):
    n = []
    for i in xrange(10000):
        a = [i, i+1]
        n.extend(a)
        n = n + a
        n.append(a)
    return (DateTime.Now - s).TotalMilliseconds
    
s = DateTime.Now
print test(s)
from System import DateTime

def fact(n):
    if n < 2:
        return 1
    return n + fact(n-1)

def test(s):
    for i in xrange(10000):
        fact(500)
    return (DateTime.Now - s).TotalMilliseconds
    
s = DateTime.Now
print test(s)
from System import DateTime


class Thing(object):
    def __init__(self, val):
        self.val = val
    
    def __eq__(self, other):
        return self.val == other.val

    def __neq__(self):
        return not self.__eq__(other)
        
    def __hash__(self):
        return hash(self.val)
        
        
def test(s):
    a = set()
    for i in xrange(100000):
        a.add(Thing(i))
        a.add(Thing(i+1))
        Thing(i) in a
        Thing(i+2) in a
    return (DateTime.Now -s).TotalMilliseconds
    
s = DateTime.Now
print test(s)
from System import DateTime

def test(s):
    a = set()
    for i in xrange(10000000):
        a.add(i)
        a.add(i+1)
    return (DateTime.Now -s).TotalMilliseconds
    
s = DateTime.Now
print test(s)
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