[PD-dev] performance testing WAS: double precision Pd: .patch files, tests and benchmarks
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at at.or.at
Mon Oct 3 18:26:21 CEST 2011
On Oct 3, 2011, at 12:21 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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> On 2011-10-03 18:04, katja wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>>
>>> Do you have access to an ARM
>>> machine? If not, I could probably get one online with ssh access,
>>> if that's
>>> useful.
>>
>> I've mailed Joe White with the question if he can patch the code for
>> libpd and check performance on ARM.
>
> apropos performance:
> on my i5 650 @ 3.2GHz, running debian
> and trying to osc-delay-perfotest.pd (with only 400 osc-delay
> abstractions, as 500 would max out the CPU in "new double" mode) i
> get:
> original : 28%
> debian : 31%
> new single: 64%
> new double: 86%
>
> the "new" versions are Pd-0.43.1-test4 with only the
> PD_FLOAT_PRECISION
> set to 32 resp. 64.
>
> the "original" version is a 0.43.1-test2, where i cannot recall any
> special optimization flags.
>
> the "debian" version is a 0.43.0 with most optimization turned OFF (as
> is debian policy)
Hey IOhannes,
Could you write up a quick wiki page on how to do this performance
testing? I never remember a good setup.
.hc
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