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[performance] GraalPython is slow when running Cython

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@msimacek ya está trabajando en esto.

Desde el 29/7/2024.

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I've been working on getting GraalPython tested on the Cython CI. It mostly works but it's really slow.

One aspect of this is the time spent running Cython itself. Note that this is pure Python code (so it doesn't involve any interaction with your C API emulation, which I know isn't considered a fast path) - while Cython has the option of compiling itself for speed I haven't done so here for the sake of the report.

For the sake of a demo I've just done checked out the cython repository from github and done

time python cython.py Cython/Compiler/*.py

that just runs cython on a bunch of its own files (but only to the c code generation stage, it doesn't invoke any C compilers).

Some results:

Python 3.11.9
-----------
real    1m3.896s
user    0m55.934s
sys     0m4.580s

GraalPython (from the file "graalpy-24.0.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz" from your releases page)
Python 3.10.13 (Thu Jul 04 12:42:45 UTC 2024)
[Graal, Oracle GraalVM, Java 22.0.2] on linux
--------------
real    8m2.008s
user    21m20.609s
sys     0m19.100s

PyPy (pypy3.10-v7.3.12-linux64)
---------------------------------------------
real    4m18.502s
user    4m10.389s
sys     0m0.938s

The upshot is that GraalPython is about 8 times slower than CPython, (and also uses 3 cores of my CPU most of that time while CPython is largely single-threaded).

I've included PyPy just as another data-point. It's also slower for this case (although not quite as slow as GraalPython) so we're clearly doing something that isn't JIT friendly....

I haven't done any profiling beyond this basic measurement (yet).

I do realise this is essentially an enormous code-dump with the complaint "it's slow", which is never a style of bug report that I'm very impressed with when I'm on the receiving end.

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