[Numpy-discussion] python numpy code many times slower than c++

[Wes McKinney]

import cProfile

def f():
    pass

def g():
    for i in xrange(1000000):
        f()

cProfile.run("g()")

>test.py
         1000003 function calls in 1.225 CPU seconds

   Ordered by: standard name

   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
        1    0.000    0.000    1.225    1.225 <string>:1(<module>)
  1000000    0.464    0.000    0.464    0.000 test.py:3(f)
        1    0.761    0.761    1.225    1.225 test.py:6(g)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of
'_lsprof.Profiler' objects}

Running this with line_profiler:

Timer unit: 2.9485e-010 s

File: test.py
Function: g at line 9
Total time: 0.855075 s

Line #      Hits         Time  Per Hit   % Time  Line Contents
==============================================================
     9                                           @profiler
    10                                           def g():
    11   1000001   1844697930   1844.7     63.6         for i in
xrange(1000000):
    12   1000000   1055333053   1055.3     36.4                 f()

Which is what I would expect. Hmm

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 01:46, Hanni Ali <hanni.ali@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been using your profiler extensively and it has contributed to my
> > achieving significant improvements in the application I work on largely
> due
> > to the usefulness of the line by line breakdown enabling me to easily
> select
> > the next part of code to work on optimizing. So firstly many thanks for
> > writing it.
>
> My pleasure.
>
> > However back to my point, Wes, I have also experienced timing oddities,
> in
> > particular on Virtual machines (MS Hyper-V has very poor processor
> timings,
> > the older MS VM works fine though). I believe the negative timings arise
> > when the CPU (be it virtual or possibly physical) deviates from its
> standard
> > performance or rather the initial timer unit taken, would this make sense
> to
> > you Robert?
>
> Can you try using cProfile with lots of calls to empty functions? I'm
> using the same timer functions as cProfile.
>
> --
> Robert Kern
>
> "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
> enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
> though it had an underlying truth."
>  -- Umberto Eco
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