Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

Please add notes to the Tools/README pointing users to the performance suite.

I'd also like to request that you reword this dismissive line in the 
performance package's readme:

"""
pybench - run the standard Python PyBench benchmark suite. This is considered 
an unreliable, unrepresentative benchmark; do not base decisions off it. It is 
included only for completeness.
"""

I suppose this was taken from the Unladden Swallow list of benchmarks and 
completely misses the point of what pybench is all about: it's a benchmark to 
run performance tests for individual parts of CPython's VM implementation. It 
never was intended to be representative. The main purpose is to be able to tell 
whether an optimization in CPython has an impact on individual areas of the 
interpreter or not.

Thanks.

----------

_______________________________________
Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue15369>
_______________________________________
_______________________________________________
Python-bugs-list mailing list
Unsubscribe: 
https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com

Reply via email to