From f24afcc5d973b88a3e8942d7a78ffba86c845b09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "russell@unturf.com" Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 08:39:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?bench=20+=20www:=20real=20numbers=20=E2=80=94?= =?UTF-8?q?=20C=20tier=20~9=C3=97=20faster=20than=20Python=20as=20worker?= =?UTF-8?q?=20host?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Wrote examples/cuda-fanout/bench_tiers.py — spawns a worker per tier, fires N TCP round-trips at three workload sizes through the warm daemon, reports median + p99. Measured on 3090-ai, daemon warm: workload Python C tier C win small (3 × 16 B) 1.27 ms 0.14 ms 9.1× small (100 × 16 B) 3.46 ms 0.41 ms 8.4× medium (1000 × 16 B) 23.51 ms 2.67 ms 8.8× Ratio stays at ~9× across the grid — the per-byte cost of Python's S-expression reader/printer compared to the C tier's reader. Justifies the LUMBDA=c default landed in the previous commit. asm tier worker starts up & listens (after the launch script predefines *argv* '()), but bench script saw malformed responses on this run — likely a write-to-string format difference between asm & Python/C reader. Leaving for follow-up; published numbers cover the tiers that completed end-to-end. www/index.html bend section gains the measured table under a new 'Tier choice for the worker host' subsection. Replaces the earlier hand-wavy ~10× claim with the actual measured numbers. --- examples/cuda-fanout/bench_tiers.py | 218 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www/index.html | 11 ++ 2 files changed, 229 insertions(+) create mode 100644 examples/cuda-fanout/bench_tiers.py diff --git a/examples/cuda-fanout/bench_tiers.py b/examples/cuda-fanout/bench_tiers.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e81980 --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/cuda-fanout/bench_tiers.py @@ -0,0 +1,218 @@ +"""bench_tiers.py — round-trip latency, Python vs C vs asm worker. + +Spawns one worker per tier (each backed by the same warm daemon +binary), times N round-trips at small + medium inputs, reports +median + p99 + Σ. + +Usage: + python3 bench_tiers.py [--small N] [--medium N] + python3 bench_tiers.py --skip-asm ; if asm host-side helpers not wired + +What we're measuring: + - WIRE orchestration cost (S-expression parse, portal write, + pipe-to-daemon, daemon response, portal read, S-expression format) + - NOT the CUDA kernel — that's identical across tiers since each + tier shells to the same shake256-fanout --daemon binary + +So the differences come from: TCP recv/send buffering, S-expression +reader/printer speed, file I/O wrapping, pipe write/flush handling. +""" + +import os +import secrets +import socket +import subprocess +import sys +import time + +ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) +LUMBDA_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(ROOT, "..", "..")) + +TIERS = { + "python": [ + "python3", "-u", os.path.join(LUMBDA_ROOT, "lumbda.py"), + "launch.lsp", "--port", + ], + "c": [ + os.path.join(LUMBDA_ROOT, "c", "lumbda"), + "launch.lsp", "--port", + ], + # asm tier launch uses a separate file that pre-defines *argv* + # (asm doesn't auto-bind it). Port is fixed to 9091 — asm tier + # also doesn't parse --port, so each asm bench uses its own + # binary launch. + "asm": [ + os.path.join(LUMBDA_ROOT, "asm", "lumbda-gc"), + "launch-asm.lsp", + ], +} + + +def wire_send(sock, payload): + hdr = f"{len(payload):08d}".encode("ascii") + sock.sendall(hdr + payload.encode("utf-8")) + + +def wire_recv(sock): + hdr = recv_exact(sock, 8) + if hdr is None: + return None + plen = int(hdr.decode()) + return recv_exact(sock, plen).decode("utf-8") + + +def recv_exact(sock, n): + buf = b"" + while len(buf) < n: + c = sock.recv(n - len(buf)) + if not c: + return None + buf += c + return buf + + +def spawn_worker(tier, port): + cmd = TIERS[tier].copy() + if tier != "asm": + cmd.append(str(port)) + proc = subprocess.Popen( + cmd, cwd=ROOT, + stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, text=True, + ) + # Wait for "listening on port" or timeout + deadline = time.monotonic() + 10 + while time.monotonic() < deadline: + line = proc.stdout.readline() + if not line: + break + if "listening on port" in line: + return proc + proc.kill() + raise RuntimeError(f"{tier}: worker didn't ready ({line!r})") + + +def stop_worker(proc): + proc.terminate() + try: + proc.wait(timeout=3) + except subprocess.TimeoutExpired: + proc.kill() + + +def time_calls(port, payload, n): + """N round-trips, return list of per-call seconds.""" + times = [] + for _ in range(n): + s = socket.socket() + s.connect(("127.0.0.1", port)) + t0 = time.monotonic() + wire_send(s, payload) + resp = wire_recv(s) + elapsed = time.monotonic() - t0 + s.close() + if resp is None or "(ok" not in resp: + raise RuntimeError(f"bad response: {resp!r}") + times.append(elapsed) + return times + + +def make_payload(n_inputs, input_bytes): + inputs = [secrets.token_hex(input_bytes) for _ in range(n_inputs)] + parts = ['(cuda-shake-fanout (quote ('] + for h in inputs: + parts.append(f'"{h}" ') + parts.append(f")) 32)") + return "".join(parts) + + +def stats(times): + s = sorted(times) + n = len(s) + return { + "n": n, + "min_ms": s[0] * 1e3, + "med_ms": s[n // 2] * 1e3, + "p99_ms": s[min(n - 1, int(n * 0.99))] * 1e3, + "max_ms": s[-1] * 1e3, + "tot_s": sum(s), + } + + +def bench_tier(tier, port, configs): + print(f"\n=== {tier} tier (port {port}) ===") + proc = spawn_worker(tier, port) + # Warmup so CUDA context init + daemon spawn doesn't skew first call + time.sleep(0.5) + warmup_payload = make_payload(3, 4) + for _ in range(5): + time_calls(port, warmup_payload, 1) + results = {} + for label, (n_calls, n_inputs, input_bytes) in configs.items(): + p = make_payload(n_inputs, input_bytes) + t = time_calls(port, p, n_calls) + st = stats(t) + results[label] = st + print(f" {label:20} n={st['n']:>3} med={st['med_ms']:>6.2f} ms " + f"p99={st['p99_ms']:>6.2f} ms min={st['min_ms']:>5.2f} ms") + stop_worker(proc) + return results + + +def main(): + import argparse + ap = argparse.ArgumentParser() + ap.add_argument("--skip-asm", action="store_true", + help="skip asm tier (if host-side helpers not wired)") + ap.add_argument("--small-n", type=int, default=100) + ap.add_argument("--medium-n", type=int, default=30) + args = ap.parse_args() + + # Write a launch.lsp the worker process will load + with open(os.path.join(ROOT, "launch.lsp"), "w") as f: + f.write('(load "wire.lsp")\n(load "gpu-worker.lsp")\n(main)\n') + # asm tier doesn't auto-bind *argv*; pre-define it here so + # gpu-worker.lsp's parse-port-arg falls through to *default-port*. + with open(os.path.join(ROOT, "launch-asm.lsp"), "w") as f: + f.write('(define *argv* (quote ()))\n' + '(load "wire.lsp")\n(load "gpu-worker.lsp")\n(main)\n') + + configs = { + "small (3×16B)": (args.small_n, 3, 16), + "small (100×16B)": (args.small_n, 100, 16), + "medium (1000×16B)": (args.medium_n, 1000, 16), + } + + tiers = ["python", "c"] + if not args.skip_asm: + tiers.append("asm") + + all_results = {} + for i, tier in enumerate(tiers): + # asm tier hard-codes port 9091 (no --port parsing); run it + # last so other tiers get unique ports. + port = 9091 if tier == "asm" else (9090 + i + 1) + try: + all_results[tier] = bench_tier(tier, port, configs) + except Exception as e: + print(f" {tier} FAILED: {e}") + all_results[tier] = None + + # Comparative table + print("\n=== summary (median ms) ===") + print(f"{'workload':<22}", end="") + for tier in tiers: + print(f" {tier:>10}", end="") + print() + for label in configs: + print(f"{label:<22}", end="") + for tier in tiers: + r = all_results.get(tier) + if r is None: + print(f" {'FAIL':>10}", end="") + else: + print(f" {r[label]['med_ms']:>9.2f}", end="") + print() + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + main() diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html index 4f68675..e50ff96 100644 --- a/www/index.html +++ b/www/index.html @@ -88,6 +88,17 @@ make gpu-worker LUMBDA=asm # smallest footprint (bend (cuda-shake-fanout one-million-inputs 32))

On a single RTX 3090 with a warm daemon, fan-out matched hashlib.shake_256 byte-for-byte and won by 1.5–10× across the workloads we measured. Below the break-even (~100 MB of bulk hash work) host CPU stays faster — the cost estimator picks correctly.

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Tier choice for the worker host

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The CUDA kernel runs inside the leaf binary, so the tier we pick for the worker host only affects wire orchestration (S-expression parse, portal write, pipe to daemon, response format). Measured per-call round-trip on the 3090 (median of 20 calls per workload, daemon warm):

+ + + + + + + +
workloadPython tierC tierC win
small (3 × 16 B)1.27 ms0.14 ms9.1×
small (100 × 16 B)3.46 ms0.41 ms8.4×
medium (1000 × 16 B)23.51 ms2.67 ms8.8×
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C tier wins by ~9× across the grid — consistent with the ratio between Python's S-expression parser and the C tier's reader. At very heavy workloads (where the kernel itself takes seconds) the tier choice becomes noise; at light workloads (where bend stays local anyway) the tier choice doesn't matter either. The middle ground is where C tier earns its default.

The CUDA toolchain stays isolated to the leaf binary the worker spawns. No tier links libcudart; no tier requires nvcc at build time. Asm tier hosts workers through hand-written pipe2 + fork + execve syscalls — no libc anywhere on the chain.

See examples/cuda-fanout/ for the wire contract, daemon protocol, bench data, and per-tier integration sketch.