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Compiling Ruby w/ Profile Guided Optimization

Greg Buchholz

5/11/2006 9:13:00 PM

Since gcc-4.1 now has the option to perform profile guided
optimization, I thought I'd try compiling a version of Ruby with this
feature turned on. For the (somewhat contrived/synthetic) scenario
below, it looks like compiling with profile guided optimization turned
on, along with -O3, results in about a 9% speed increase vs. -O3 alone.
YMMV. I compiled a version of Ruby-1.8.4 using the following config
options...

configure CFLAGS="-O3 -fprofile-generate"
LDFLAGS=-fprofile-generate

....Then I ran the short version of the n-body program from the Great
Computer Language Shootout with n=1000...


http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=rub...

....this generated the profile information needed for the next stage. I
then compiled a Ruby with...

configure CFLAGS="-O3 -fprofile-use"

....Running the resulting interpreter runs the exact same n-body program
about 8-10% faster than an compiling with just -O3.

FWIW,

Greg Buchholz
2 Answers

ptkwt

5/11/2006 10:38:00 PM

0

In article <1147381980.599350.283360@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
Greg Buchholz <sleepingsquirrel@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Since gcc-4.1 now has the option to perform profile guided
>optimization, I thought I'd try compiling a version of Ruby with this
>feature turned on. For the (somewhat contrived/synthetic) scenario
>below, it looks like compiling with profile guided optimization turned
>on, along with -O3, results in about a 9% speed increase vs. -O3 alone.
> YMMV. I compiled a version of Ruby-1.8.4 using the following config
>options...
>
> configure CFLAGS="-O3 -fprofile-generate"
>LDFLAGS=-fprofile-generate
>
>...Then I ran the short version of the n-body program from the Great
>Computer Language Shootout with n=1000...
>
>
>http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=nbody&lang=rub...
>
>...this generated the profile information needed for the next stage. I
>then compiled a Ruby with...
>
> configure CFLAGS="-O3 -fprofile-use"
>
>...Running the resulting interpreter runs the exact same n-body program
>about 8-10% faster than an compiling with just -O3.
>

Cool! What exactly is 'profile guided optimization'?

Phil

Greg Buchholz

5/11/2006 11:41:00 PM

0


Phil Tomson wrote:
>
> Cool! What exactly is 'profile guided optimization'?
>

http://gcc.gnu.org/news/profiled...

Greg Buchholz