On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maciej Fijalkowski, 11.04.2011 11:53: > > I propose the waf benchmark removal. > > > > Originally, the idea was that we're slower than CPython for no good > > reason. Now that this benchmark measures some obscure piece of stdlib > > time (subprocesses) I don't think it's that necessary. > > > > Besides: > > > > * the variation between runs is too big, so we don't care > > * noone was ever remotely interested in speeding this up > > > > any opinions? > > Despite the relatively large variations, Cython runs this benchmark > persistently ~1/3 faster than CPython 2.7 for me - minus the currently > missing support for "__file__", which is used at build time here. So my > vote would be to leave it in, maybe someone has an incentive to speed this > up once you have bars up for Cython. :) > > Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > Personally I'd be happier if it was a bit more of a microbenchmark, it's apparently a macro-benchmark, of subprocess ATM, which makes no sense really :) Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero
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