Hi Marcin

I normally use valgrind (with the callgrind tool).

cheers - Barry

On 05/08/12 15:32, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt wrote:
> Hi Barry,
> both version were run with one thread, but with multi-thread support
> compiled in. The slow-down is similar for 8 threads, just scaled
> proportionally, 170 seconds vs 135 seconds.
>
> I've noticed that effect while I was checking the performance of my
> phrase table after merging with master and first thought that it is my
> fault, but I have the same effect with the standard phrase table, as
> reported below.
>
> How exactly do you want me to profile the versions?
> Best,
> Marcin
>
> W dniu 05.08.2012 16:07, Barry Haddow pisze:
>> Hi Marcin
>>
>> Is this single-threaded or multi-threaded Moses? One possible issue is
>> that threads are now compiled in by default, so even if you run with a
>> single thread then you still pay some locking penalties. I'm not sure
>> that this should make the large difference that you observe though. You
>> can compile without threads to avoid the locking.
>>
>> I haven't noticed any significant slow-down, but we don't monitor
>> performance too carefully here (although we probably should). I'd be
>> interested to see a profile of the two versions that you tested,
>>
>> cheers - Barry
>>
>> On 05/08/12 11:27, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> has anyone noticed that Moses seems to be about 20-30% slower than about
>>> a year ago? I happen to have a checkout from last September lying
>>> around. With the same settings, and the same data the translation of
>>> 1000 sentences takes around 925 seconds now, but 690 seconds with the
>>> September version. Translation results are the same.
>>>
>>> I use the same binary phrase table with around 200 million phrase pairs,
>>> no lexical reordering, the same 3-gram KenLm language model, but
>>> compiled to the corresponding format which changed between versions. The
>>> data is fully cached in the operational system read cache, so it seems
>>> this are processing issues.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else noticed something like that?
>>> Best,
>>> Marcin
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