Re: Eigen 3.3 vs 3.2 Performance (was RE: [eigen] 3.3-beta2 released!)

[Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I tried your little benchmark and with gcc 7, I got no difference at all (-O3 -NDEBUG):

// 3.2: 7.75s

// 3.3: 7.68s

// 3.2 -march=native: 7.46s

// 3.3 -march=native: 7.48s

I ran each test 4 times and keep the best of each, the variations were about 0.2s.

gael

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 1:28 PM <Daniel.Vollmer@xxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

extracting the relevant code is rather difficult, unfortunately.

Attached you will find an extracted subset, which may point to one problematic area with partial vectorization as for this example Eigen 3.3 is ~13% slower (unless I'm measuring incorrectly).

If I turn off partial vectorization, the run-time is the same. This is not completely representative (obviously), because in my "complete" runs disabling partial vectorization only decreases the run-time difference between 3.3 and 3.2, but does not eliminate it.


Best regards

Daniel Vollmer

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Von: Marc Glisse [marc.glisse@xxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. August 2018 12:06
An: eigen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Re: Eigen 3.3 vs 3.2 Performance (was RE: [eigen] 3.3-beta2 released!)

On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Daniel.Vollmer@xxxxxx wrote:

> I've attached a document with some performance measurements for
> different compilers, different Eigen versions, and 3 different
> test-cases for our code (tau, cgns, dg) that stress different areas /
> sizes.

Would it be hard to create small testcases that you could share and that
would still show a similar performance pattern? I assume that the easier
it is for Eigen dev to reproduce, the more likely they are to investigate.

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Marc Glisse