Darren Dale wrote: > On Thursday 16 August 2007 5:25:47 pm Fernando Perez wrote: >> On 8/16/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Thursday 16 August 2007 03:33:37 pm Darren Dale wrote: >>>> On Thursday 16 August 2007 03:15:39 pm Fernando Perez wrote: >>>>> On 8/16/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> Fernando, >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for taking the opportunity of checking into this now. I >>>>>> have to pass the buck, though--the bug you ran into looks like the >>>>>> intersection between Mike's extensive mathtext work and Darren's >>>>>> experimental replacement rc system, and apart from the testing you >>>>>> refer to (prior to much of Mike's work) I have not dealt with >>>>>> either of these areas. >>>>> OK, understood. No worries. >>>>> >>>>> I'm rebuilding to SVN from August 1st, which is when this >>>>> conversation started. That might do the trick and let us work here. >>>>> I'll pester again for help if I get stuck. >>>> Eric is correct. I have to run in a minute, but I'll update the config >>>> module early this evening to include Mikes recent changes. >>> Fixed in svn 3711. gotta run! >> Mmh, I'm afraid not: > > Sorry, it should be fixed now. backend_driver.py runs all tests without any > failures for me, using svn 3713. Here are my results on my computer at home, > with the traited config disabled: > > Backend Agg took 1.82 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.417, template residual 0.537 > Backend PS took 1.64 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.275, template residual 0.355 > Backend Template took 1.29 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.000, template residual 0.000 > Backend SVG took 1.69 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.313, template residual 0.403 > > and with the traited config enabled: > > Backend Agg took 1.98 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.412, template residual 0.578 > Backend PS took 1.95 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.388, template residual 0.545 > Backend Template took 1.41 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.000, template residual 0.000 > Backend SVG took 1.72 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.226, template residual 0.318 > > That doesnt look too bad, compared to Eric's results. This is using a fresh > traits installation, installed today with: > > sudo easy_install -f \ > http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/source "enthought.traits < 3.0a" > > I dont know where to get the new eggs. > > > I also tested it on my computer at work, which is 64bit, 4 processors, lots > of > ram, and SATA disks. Here are the results with traited config disabled: > > Backend Agg took 0.99 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.639, template residual 0.386 > Backend PS took 0.82 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.364, template residual 0.220 > Backend Template took 0.60 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.000, template residual 0.000 > Backend SVG took 0.77 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.273, template residual 0.165 > > Here are the results with traited config enabled: > > Backend Agg took 1.10 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.463, template residual 0.346 > Backend PS took 0.97 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.297, template residual 0.222 > Backend Template took 0.75 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.000, template residual 0.000 > Backend SVG took 0.91 minutes to complete > template ratio 1.220, template residual 0.165 >
So, 10% slower with backend_agg, 18% slower with backend_svg. It's not devastating, but it's not so great, either. > Those results look fine to me. I dont know what has changed since we last > discussed this, but when Eric brought up the speed issue I remember the > traited config was significantly slower at that time. Maybe this is very good > news! > Maybe there is some sensitivity to machine architecture; my tests were on a Lenovo T60 laptop, Core2 at 2 GHz. For Fernando's simple_plot, using /usr/bin/time, I get: 0.53user 0.11system 0:00.66elapsed without traits 0.66user 0.21system 0:00.89elapsed with traits (The figures are quite repeatable; numbers above are representative. CPU is 98% in both cases.) So the total time for this very simple plot (which makes it something of a worst case) is more than 30% longer with traits than without, implying that the startup time increase is even larger as a percentage. One might argue that the difference of 0.23 seconds doesn't matter, but I think it is still worth considering. Maybe it can be beaten down to a small fraction of that. Other major chunks of the startup time are simply importing numpy and pylab. I don't know how much improvement is possible; maybe not much. I have already killed the biggest single contribution I could find, which was generation of the global FontManager instance. Now it is read from a pickle. Eric > Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
