On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:39:19 +0000
Alex Leach <albl...@york.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Obviously, I was hoping to get a faster python, but the size of the final
> binary is almost twice the size of the default Ubuntu version (5.2MB cf.
> 2.7MB), which I thought might cause a startup overhead that leads to slower
> execution times when running such a basic script.
Did you compare the actual code sizes? The `size` command can help you
with that.
> *** TEST SCRIPT ***
> $ cat ~/bin/timetest.py
>
> RANGE = 10000
>
> print "running {0}^2 = {1} for loop iterations".format( RANGE,RANGE**2 )
>
> for i in xrange(RANGE):
> for j in xrange(RANGE):
> i * j
That's an extremely silly benchmark, unlikely to be representative of
any actual Python workload. I suggest you try a less-trivial benchmark
suite, such as: http://hg.python.org/benchmarks/
Regards
Antoine.
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