Evaluate the overhead of CPython with Linux Perf

System Requirements

The system should be Linux

Dependencies

Install and enable Linux perf. If successful, the following command will give meaningful output.

perf stat -- sleep 1

Install the packages required to compile CPython. For ubuntu, use the following command

apt-get -yq install \
    build-essential \
    zlib1g-dev \
    libbz2-dev \
    liblzma-dev \
    libncurses5-dev \
    libreadline6-dev \
    libsqlite3-dev \
    libssl-dev \
    libgdbm-dev \
    tk-dev \
    lzma \
    lzma-dev \
    liblzma-dev \
    libffi-dev \
    uuid-dev \
    xvfb

Install some python packages.

python3 -m pip install matplotlib numpy scipy pyelftools Pygments psutil

Run

Create a empty directory and clone this repository as its subdirectory. The run.sh script will reproduce the entire experiment.

mkdir cpython-overhead
git clone https://github.com/zq1997/cpython-overhead-evaluation.git evaluation
cd evaluation
./run.sh

He will generate some other directories under cpython-overhead:

• cpython, the CPython source tree
• build, the compilation and installation directory
• benchmark, for pyperformance benchmark suite
• paper, the PDF figure and tex tables for the paper