Nuitka Speedcenter

Welcome to Nuitka speedcenter, the underlying tool behind the site dedicated to performance and Nuitka: https://speedcenter.nuitka.net

Currently this is very newly released and relatively ugly, hope is for you people to join and improve this in entirely new ways.

Installation

This needs Python 3.9 and Linux currently. Also Valgrind will have to be installed.

Then do these commands (may take a while, it is compile parts of the dependencies via C it seems, and not all of it is available as wheels):

python3.9 -m pip install pipenv
python3.9 -m pipenv install

Now the tools are runnable, the main frontend currently for building the Nikola site is this:

python3.9 -m pipenv run python ./update.py --update-all

Note it will attempt to deploy and fail for you. The UI is currently not really good, the tool is mostly meant to run on CI servers, feel free to improve it for interactive use.

To look at it, consider using this:

python3.9 -m pipenv run nikola serve

Improvements Needed

Construct based tests are a nice way to take performance. But maybe test cases should be generated via Jinja2 and not via hand made pre-processor. Not sure really, because one of my initial goals in doing it was to have proper syntax for Python. But Jinja2 will be better at generating and therefore also at maintaining more test cases easier.

For the rendering, Nikola and a graphing plugin are used. Nikola has a better thing for diff display. We either expand on this, or we turn to something entirely different.

And lastly, on Windows there is no Valgrind. Is there an alternative way to measure performance as accurate as Valgrind can for Linux?