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Add a Macro Benchmark that Exercises Threading (Multi-Core Concurrency)

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
performance

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing pyperformance benchmark suite and how its single-process benchmarks are organized. Define how a multiprocessing benchmark should exercise shared last-level-cache pressure across cores, and consider the benchmark complete when it provides reproducible multi-core performance data useful for evaluating dict and set optimizations.

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From @methane (https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/KVH7QLJ4VJBQQ45LZTWDXO2SEC6ANX7T/):

CPU cache invalidation exists regardless. With the current GIL the
effect it is reduced significantly.

It's an interesting point. We can not see the benefit from pypeformance, because it doesn't use much data and it runs one process
at a time. So the pyperformance can not make enough stress to the last level cache which is shared by many cores.

We need multiprocess performance benchmark apart from pyperformance, to stress the last level cache from multiple cores. It helps not only this PEP, but also optimizing containers like dict and set.

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