I started dabbling with threads in python and for some odd reason the
performance seems extremely poor on my 2 core system.
It this a simplified version spawn 2 threads write some data to a file and
time the results vs doing the same sequentially.
Why is the performance so much slower with the threaded version?
#!/usr/bin/python
import time
from threading import Thread
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
BYTES=10000000
class FileWriterThread(Thread):
def __init__(self,filenam):
Thread.__init__(self)
self.filenam = filenam
def run(self):
self.filename = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)
start = time.time()
for count in xrange(1,BYTES):
self.filename.write(str(count))
self.filename.write("\n")
end = time.time()
return (end - start)
def fileWriter(bytesToWrite):
f = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)
start = time.time()
for n in xrange(1,bytesToWrite):
f.write(str(n))
f.write("\n")
end = time.time()
return (end - start)
if __name__ == "__main__":
#tmpfile = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)
total = 0.0
start = time.time()
for x in xrange(2):
c = FileWriterThread(BYTES)
c.start()
c.join()
end = time.time()
print "Runtime (thread based): %f" % (end - start)
for x in xrange(2):
c = fileWriter(BYTES)
print "Runtime (None thread based): %f" % c
total += c
print "Total Runtime (None thread based): %f " % total
rbr...@laptop:~/code/python$ python filewriter_thr.py
Runtime (thread based): 66.721260
Runtime (None thread based): 16.000052
Runtime (None thread based): 16.078885
Total Runtime (None thread based): 32.078937
rbr...@laptop:~/code/python$ grep ^cpu.*cores /proc/cpuinfo
cpu cores : 2
cpu cores : 2
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