On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>  3.0 MiB + 277.5 KiB =   3.3
>> MiB     /usr/bin/python2.5/usr/sbin/olpc-update-query--auto-s10
>> Normal build:
>>
>> ...
>>  3.3 MiB + 333.0 KiB =   3.6 MiB       python/usr/bin/sugar-shell-service
>> ---------------------------------
>>                        103.9 MiB
>
> You added an olpc-update-query in your first set of numbers (-OO), but
> there wasn't one running in your 'normal' run.  Also, your addition
> seems to be off, probably because you are eliding other rows which
> aren't actually matching up between runs.  When I add the matching
> columns that you included, I get 73.7M for -OO and 79.7M for 'normal',
> for a 6M (~8%) savings.

Yes, I just wanted to post in a hurry what I got yesterday. That's
what "preliminar" wanted to convey.

>> Had to backport two patches for -OO to work:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460334
>
> See also http://scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/893, which contains a
> patch we'd need to apply to numpy if we were to actually use -OO.

True, I'll add a fedora bug today if we are still going to pursue this path.

>> As Scott wrote initially, we still need to dig a bit more in order to
>> see all the tradeoffs in play here.
>
> So far it seems we have "modest" memory savings (perhaps more as we
> write more documentation!) -- I'd like to see numbers quantifying any
> speed improvement (if any) which -OO provides, as well as the NAND
> cost: how big are all those .pyo files?
>
> Do folks think it's worth trying out -OO in joyride?

I'm going to spend some hours today in order to quantify all this
better. More later.

Regards and big thanks to Riccardo and Scott for suggesting this possibility,

Tomeu
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