Re: further benchmarks on different versions of Perl

2003-11-12 Thread Stas Bekman
Stas Bekman wrote: [...] 2) D (+shrplib, -ithreads, +perlio, -debug) 128 A (+shrplib, -ithreads, +perlio, +debug) 100 D and A are the same builds, and similar to B&F the only difference is debugging enabled in A. As you can see with ithreads disabled enabled debugging affects the performance much

Re: further benchmarks on different versions of Perl

2003-11-12 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:31, Stas Bekman wrote: At the moment it looks like if you build your perl with -Uuseshrplib -Uusethreads and don't enable debugging, and use a good selection of optimization flags (like Mandrake 9.2's perl does), you will get the best performance. W

Re: further benchmarks on different versions of Perl

2003-11-12 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:31, Stas Bekman wrote: > At the moment it looks like if you build your perl with -Uuseshrplib > -Uusethreads and don't enable debugging, and use a good selection of > optimization flags (like Mandrake 9.2's perl does), you will get the > best performance. Whee! Benchmarki

Re: further benchmarks on different versions of Perl

2003-11-12 Thread Stas Bekman
John Day wrote: [...] Thanks for the comparisons. This is exactly what I think the bulk of users need to see. Like me, there must be thousands of users who have no idea what the compiler options mean and thus are not going to touch a single one! After your benchmark I can now relax and be comfortab

Re: further benchmarks on different versions of Perl

2003-11-12 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 21:31, Stas Bekman wrote: Thanks Perrin for this comparison numbers, but I think you didn't provide enough build information. Default build opts vary from release to release and from OS to OS, you really need to show the whole perl -V to make these num

Re: further benchmarks on different versions of Perl

2003-11-12 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: [...] A) perl-5.006001 path= /usr/local/perl56/bin/perl cc = cc optimize= -O2 ccflags = -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 usemymalloc = n B) perl-5.008

Re: further benchmarks on different versions of Perl

2003-11-11 Thread John Day
At 09:55 PM 11/10/2003 -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote: >On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 21:31, Stas Bekman wrote: >> Thanks Perrin for this comparison numbers, but I think you didn't provide >> enough build information. Default build opts vary from release to release and >> from OS to OS, you really need to s

Re: further benchmarks on different versions of Perl

2003-11-10 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 21:31, Stas Bekman wrote: > Thanks Perrin for this comparison numbers, but I think you didn't provide > enough build information. Default build opts vary from release to release and > from OS to OS, you really need to show the whole perl -V to make these numbers > more usef

Re: further benchmarks on different versions of Perl

2003-11-10 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: I grabbed perlbench from CPAN and did some more benchmarks. These confirmed what we already suspected, i.e. there are no significant performance differences in Perl itself between 5.6.1, 5.8.0, and 5.8.1, but the stock Perl on Red Hat 9 (which is compiled with threads) is sig

further benchmarks on different versions of Perl

2003-11-10 Thread Perrin Harkins
I grabbed perlbench from CPAN and did some more benchmarks. These confirmed what we already suspected, i.e. there are no significant performance differences in Perl itself between 5.6.1, 5.8.0, and 5.8.1, but the stock Perl on Red Hat 9 (which is compiled with threads) is significantly slower than