Benchmarks: What new things does iOS 9 enable in Pythonista?

smath

For reference against the other iPad 3s, here's one that's still on ios 8.3.

import platform
>>> platform.platform()
'Darwin-14.0.0-iPad3,1-32bit'
>>> import timeit
>>> timeit.timeit('import sympy')
>>> 
21.3953218460083

JonB

I suspect this has an awful lot to do with what other apps are open, whether or not you have internet turned on and thus whether background processes are going on, etc.

Phuket2

@JonB , true. I normally have a lot of apps running in the background. I closed them all down. I didn't restart the iPad though. Then with timeit i was getting consistent 6.33xxx. Also turned off mobile data and wifi. That made no difference still around 6.3xxx. Each time I shut down Pythonista before running timeit.

Phuket2

@smath , with the exact same code as yours on iPhone 6s, I get the following
Darwin-15.0.0-iPhone8,1-32bit
4.09668588638
Darwin-15.0.0-iPhone8,1-32bit
1.13581109047
Darwin-15.0.0-iPhone8,1-32bit
1.13619184494

First timing is with pythonista unloaded. Then subsequent timings just running after loaded

iOS 9.0.2

omz

Pystone might also be interesting for benchmarking. It's included in the beta, so you can simply run

from test import pystone
pystone.main()

(if you're not in the beta, you can simply copy/paste the pystone module I linked above, it's a single file.)

I recently got my new iPhone 6s, and the performance improvements are quite remarkable. I now get pretty much exactly the same result as on my (2012) MacBook Pro, i.e. around 115,000 pystones/second. On the iPad Air 2, it's around 60,000.

Phuket2

With pystone same as @omz
iPad Air 2, 128gb, iOS 9.02 (62,000)
IPhone 6s 128gb, iOS 9.02 115,00

I will be interested to try in on my Mac Pro

Old screenshot, the OS has been updated of course

Phuket2

Wow, only got this on my MacPro.

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7 /Users/ianjoicey/PycharmProjects/untitled1/main.py
Pystone(1.1) time for 50000 passes = 0.525893
This machine benchmarks at 95076.4 pystones/second

Process finished with exit code 0

I am pretty sure it was run without debugging. Seems very slow compared to the other numbers.

MartinPacker

Well I'm using Pythonista on my iPad running an HTTP Server script to serve HTML (also edited in Pythonista) as (localhost) to Safari running in iOS 9 Slide Over mode.

This is functioning as (a basic but) nice sidebar for augmenting text. For example wrapping text in quotes, composing Markdown links from text+URL.

It's basic now; It might not be so basic later on.

Not sure if this counts as the 1 iOS 9 element is I'm targeting Slide Over (which IS new in 9). And I'm doing it from Pythonista.

Phuket2

Pystone for iPad Pro, 128gb , wifi/cell iOS 9.1

Pystone(1.1) time for 50000 passes = 0.35624
This machine benchmarks at 140355 pystones/second

thats a nice increase

platform.platform()
'Darwin-15.0.0-iPad6,8-64bit'
import timeit
timeit.timeit('import sympy')
2.832141160964966

Phuket2

New iPad Pro 12.5' , time for new benchmark :) I had to run with 2.7, the map object in Pystone apparently does support subscripts in 3.x something. I didn't know how to fix, so I just ran with python 2.7

It seems like @omz had a test built in before, but that looks like it's gone.

My test below is a single run with Pythonista started fresh

Pystone(1.1) time for 50000 passes = 0.246699
This machine benchmarks at 202676 pystones/second
Platform Darwin-16.7.0-iPad7,2-64bit
timeit.timeit('import sympy')
1.65520620346

komanguy

Ipad 12.5! Never heard about it.

komanguy

@omz

iPhone 7 Plus - iOS 10.3.2
Pythonista 3

146063 pystones/second

cvp

@komanguy Promo on 12,9" 😇

omz

iPad Pro 10.5" (Pythonista 3): 146,820 pystones/second

MacBook Pro 13", 2.9 Ghz i5 (Python 3.5): 70,019 pystones/second

Phuket2

My mythical iPad is looking pretty good so far :)

omz

@Phuket2 I tested with Python 3. I think Python 2 is still faster in most benchmarks.