PyPy3 is definitely a lot slower than it should be. Please wait until it's more mature.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Brecht Machiels <bre...@mos6581.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I spoke to Romain and Armin at FOSDEM about the poor performance of PyPy > running my application, RinohType. > > I'm not sure I mentioned that RinohType only runs on Python 3. Perhaps this > can partly explain the poor performance? Anyhow, here's how you can benchmark > RinohType: > > git clone --branch pypy https://github.com/brechtm/rinohtype.git > cd rinohtype/examples/rfic2009 > > Now compare > > rm -rf template.ptc ; PYTHONPATH=../.. python3 template.py > > to > > rm -rf template.ptc ; PYTHONPATH=../.. pypy3 template.py > > template.ptc caches some of the rendering state, so be sure to remove it > before running template.py. > The output (template.pdf) is messed up but don't worry about that. > > For me, pypy3 (50 seconds) takes about 5 times longer than python3 (10 > seconds). I also tried this on Windows (32 bit) some time ago with similar > results. > > I am running Arch Linux with Python 3.3.3 and PyPy3 2.1.0 beta1 (from Arch > packages). > Python 3.2.3 (d63636b30cc089cd7f3b658766bd6f5cdaa381dd, Aug 08 2013, 17:13:31) > [PyPy 2.1.0-beta1 with GCC 4.8.1 20130725 (prerelease)] > > It would be great if you could have a look at what's going on inside the JIT > to see what's causing the slowdown. > > In any case, thanks for all your efforts! > Brecht > > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > pypy-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
