This one time, at band camp, Ian Wienand wrote: >I'd guess the Python version is spending that time doing some extra >copying because it causes a lot of page faults is really cache >unfriendly. > >Python >Instructions retired per L1 data cache access: 11.03 >Instructions retired per L2 data cache access: 24.16 > >C >Instructions retired per L1 data cache access: 6.01 >Instructions retired per L2 data cache access: 366.92
I love Ians posts only because he includes L1 and L2 cache hits in every one. If only you would share the command that gave you these numbers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
