Can anyone comment on the factors that could potentially contribute to the empirical evidence presented regarding the run-time performance of Python on the 7.3 SuSE kit? I would be interested (as others might be, too) in a discussion of the factors that would cause this... Especially considering the hardware appears to be a constant in this evaluation... The reason I am interested is because I am seeing an increase in the number of computationally-intensive "shops" ambracing Python as a cornerstone development tool. Hence, I like to know where it runs fastest... ...and possibly, why. JK At 9:43 AM -0800 3/24/02, rob wrote:
From: rob <rob3@pythonemproject.com> X-Accept-Language: en To: "suse-linux-e@suse.com" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> X-Loop-Detect: 1 Subject: [SLE] Python is slow on SuSE 8.2 vs other OS's Status:
I benchmarked Python on SuSE 7.3 as I normally do with a new OS on my laptop. My somnec.py routine runs at 450sec on 8.2, vs. 300 sec on FreeBSD, vs. 250 sec on Windows. I have a 1Ghz P4 on a Vaio FX290. Somnec is a routine which mainly eats up cpu time doing variable width Romberg integration.
I am wondering if there is a way to compile Python from SRPM and then give it compiler flags like -O2 -march=pentiumpro? I've never done that before so maybe I will RTFM :)
On FreeBSD I just put make.conf into /etc. Is there an equivalent for Linux? Thanks, Rob.
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