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Explores performance of shared memory support available in multiprocessing library in Python 3.8.
# Python -- v3.8
from multiprocessing import Process, Queue, managers
import time
def worker(id, data, queue, *args):
tmp1 = time.time()
if args:
for i in range(args[0], args[1]):
data[i] *= 2
queue.put(0)
else:
queue.put([data[x]*2 for x in range(len(data))])
def without_shared_memory():
print("Without shared memory")
iterations = 6
for i in range(2, 6):
start_time = time.time()
num_procs = 4
data = list(range(1, 10**i))
chunk_size = len(data) // num_procs
for _ in range(iterations):
queue = Queue()
procs = [Process(target=worker,
args=(j, data[j*chunk_size:(j+1)*chunk_size],
queue))
for j in range(num_procs)]
for p in procs:
p.start()
tmp = 0
for _ in range(num_procs):
tmp += sum(queue.get())
for p in procs:
p.join()
p.close()
end_time = time.time()
secs_per_iteration = (end_time - start_time) / iterations
print("data {0:>10,} ints : {1:>6.6f} secs per iteration"
.format(len(data), secs_per_iteration))
def with_shared_memory():
print("With shared memory")
iterations = 6
for i in range(2, 6):
num_procs = 4
with managers.SharedMemoryManager() as smm:
start_time = time.time()
data = smm.ShareableList(range(1, 10**i))
chunk_size = len(data) // num_procs
for _ in range(iterations):
queue = Queue()
procs = [Process(target=worker,
args=(j, data, queue, j*chunk_size,
(j+1)*chunk_size))
for j in range(num_procs)]
for p in procs:
p.start()
for _ in range(num_procs):
queue.get()
tmp = sum(data)
for p in procs:
p.join()
p.close()
end_time = time.time()
secs_per_iteration = (end_time - start_time) / iterations
print("data {0:>10,} ints : {1:>6.6f} secs per iteration"
.format(len(data), secs_per_iteration))
without_shared_memory()
with_shared_memory()
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