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Stevan (6065)

Stevan
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Friday December 14, 2007
05:10 PM

Moose 2x Speed-Up

[ #35102 ]

One of the biggest complaints/problems with Moose has always been it's compile time cost. Well with the newest release of Moose (0.33) and Class::MOP (0.49) we have made a major step towards reducing that. With judicious use of XS (konobi++ for that) and some caching in key parts of Class::MOP we have managed to cut Moose load time almost in half, here are the stats from my machine (MacBook Pro w/ 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo).

Moose 0.32 & Class::MOP 0.48 => 0.46 real 0.43 user 0.02 sys
Moose 0.33 & Class::MOP 0.49 => 0.27 real 0.22 user 0.02 sys

This change also brings allowed us to take advantage of some 5.10 specific improvements as well. In 5.8.* we use the PL_sub_generation interpreter global to determine when to invalidate our method cache, which was one of the big parts of the speed win. In 5.8.* this is incremented every time a package is changed, which means we were probably invalidating our cache even when we didn't need to. Now in 5.10 we are using the mro::get_pkg_gen function, which provides the same feature but increments on a per-package basis, which means less incorrect cache invalidation.

All in all, not bad for a few hours of work by the folks on #moose.

- Stevan

NOTE: I got my stats wrong in the ChangeLogs, I called it a ~45% speed increase, but it is really 45% less slow.


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  • Come now, we agreed in IRC that the correct way to express the difference was 63% more fastyness.
  • That's really cool. I'm starting to use Moose in some of my applications, but still hesitate using it in CGI (non-FastCGI) scripts, due to that +- 0.20 secs overhead which is still very heavy. Anyway, keep up the great work!

    • A major reason for this recent efforts to cut startup time is actually because we are working with Max Kanat-Alexander (of Bugzilla [everythingsolved.com] fame) to try and get Moose fast enough to be used in the refactoring/rewriting of Bugzilla. Max is already a fan of Moose and has used it on his (very cool) "All your VCS are belong to us" module VCI [cpan.org] module. I suspect that by mid-spring you will be able to deploy Moose apps under vanilla-CGI without a worry.

      - Stevan

  • This looks like a good start, keep the fastyness improvements coming.

    Then maybe one day Moose::Tiny may actually be able to compete with Object::Tiny :)

    • Well, we will never beat you on memory usage, but I feel I must remind you that Moose::Tiny is 8% shorter to type than Object::Tiny ;)

      Also, we are really breathing down your neck with our accessors (from the Moose::Tiny POD):

        Benchmarking accessors...
                 Rate moose  tiny
          moose 485/s    --  -19%
          tiny  599/s   23%    --

      And reallly, the difference in speed here is simply because Moose::Tiny c

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