[Haskell-cafe] how to read CPU time vs wall time report from GHC?
Wishnu Prasetya
s.w.b.prasetya at uu.nl
Mon Aug 15 00:10:27 CEST 2011
On 14-8-2011 23:05, Daniel Fischer wrote:
> On Sunday 14 August 2011, 22:42:13, Wishnu Prasetya wrote:
>> On 14-8-2011 22:17, Daniel Fischer wrote:
>>> We don't know the times for a non-threaded run (or an -N1 run), so it
>>> could be anything from a slowdown to a> 4× speedup (but it's likely
>>> to be a speedup by a factor< 4×).
>> Well, the -N1 is below. The sequential version of the program has almost
>> the same profile:
>>
>> SPARKS: 5 (1 converted, 4 pruned)
>>
>> INIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed)
>> MUT time 2.78s ( 2.99s elapsed)
>> GC time 4.35s ( 4.15s elapsed)
>> EXIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed)
>> Total time 7.13s ( 7.14s elapsed)
>>
>> Am I correct then to say that the speed up with respect to sequential is
>> equal to: tot-elapse-time-N1 / tot-elapse-N4 ? So I have 7.14 / 2.36 =
>> 3.0 speed up, and not 1.46 as Iustin said?
> Yes (with respect to wall-clock time of course).
> That's not too bad, though it should be possible to increase that factor.
>
>> I'll probably have to do something with that GC :)
> But that should be the first target, there's probably some low-hanging
> fruit there.
> Maybe increasing the size of the allocation area (+RTS -Ax) or the heap
> (+RTS -Hx) would already do some good.
> Also do heap profiling to find out what most likely takes so much GC time
> (before compiling for profiling, running with +RTS -hT could produce useful
> information).
Ah ok. Thanks a lot for all the answers and tips.
--Wish.
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