On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Paolo Giarrusso, 01.12.2010 00:34: >> Anyway, this does not interact with benchmarks above - Stefan, I still >> don't get why you complained that pyexpat is slow by showing >> benchmarks for another module, I guess I do not understand your email, >> but it asks "reasonable?" after Amaury talks about pyexpat. > > Well, in CPython, I can see little to no reason why anyone would go as > low-level as pyexpat when you can use cElementTree. So IMHO the level to > compare is what people would normally use rather than what people could > potentially use if they were beaten hard enough. > > Stefan >
Hey. Sure, makes sense :-) I think one of the reasons for some slowdown is that calls from C are not jitted if they don't contain loops themselves. This doesn't explain the whole thing obviously, because there is something really wrong going on looking at numbers. _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
