Re: [Python-Dev] OpenIndiana and Solaris support

2016-09-23 Thread Stewart, David C
Illumos, OpenIndiana et al are open source forks of Solaris. Back before the acquisition by Oracle, Sun open sourced the Solaris OS, called it OpenSolaris and encouraged projects to use it as an OS for x86 and other architectures. But after the acquisition, the OpenSolaris project seemed to end

Re: [Python-Dev] Avoiding CPython performance regressions

2015-12-01 Thread Stewart, David C
On 12/1/15, 11:38 AM, "Maciej Fijalkowski" wrote: >On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Stewart, David C > wrote: >> >> Part of the reason that I monitor ssbench so closely on Python 2 is that >> Swift is a major element in cloud computing (and OpenStack in p

Re: [Python-Dev] Avoiding CPython performance regressions

2015-12-01 Thread Stewart, David C
On 12/1/15, 10:56 AM, "Maciej Fijalkowski" wrote: >Hi David. > >Any reason you run a tiny tiny subset of benchmarks? We could always run more. There are so many in the full set in https://hg.python.org/benchmarks/ with such divergent results that it seems hard to see the forest because there

Re: [Python-Dev] Avoiding CPython performance regressions

2015-12-01 Thread Stewart, David C
On 12/1/15, 7:26 AM, "Python-Dev on behalf of Stewart, David C" wrote: > >Fabio – my advice to you is to check out the daily emails sent to >python-checkins. An example is >https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2015-November/140185.html. >If you sti

Re: [Python-Dev] Avoiding CPython performance regressions

2015-12-01 Thread Stewart, David C
mailto:python-dev@python.org>> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Avoiding CPython performance regressions On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Stewart, David C mailto:david.c.stew...@intel.com>> wrote: On 11/30/15, 5:52 AM, "Python-Dev on behalf of R. David Murray" mailto:inte

Re: [Python-Dev] Avoiding CPython performance regressions

2015-11-30 Thread Stewart, David C
On 11/30/15, 5:52 AM, "Python-Dev on behalf of R. David Murray" wrote: > >There's also an Intel project posted about here recently that checks >individual benchmarks for performance regressions and posts the results >to python-checkins. The description of the project is at https://01.org/l

Re: [Python-Dev] Benchmark results across all major Python implementations

2015-11-17 Thread Stewart, David C
+Stefan (owner of the 0-day lab) On 11/17/15, 10:40 AM, "Python-Dev on behalf of R. David Murray" wrote: >On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 23:37:06 +0000, "Stewart, David C" > wrote: >> Last June we started publishing a daily performance report of the latest >>

Re: [Python-Dev] Benchmark results across all major Python implementations

2015-11-16 Thread Stewart, David C
Last June we started publishing a daily performance report of the latest Python tip against the previous day's run and some established synch point. We mail these to the community to act as a "canary in the coal mine." I wrote about it at https://01.org/lp/blog/0-day-challenge-what-pulse-interne

Re: [Python-Dev] Profile Guided Optimization active by-default

2015-08-24 Thread Stewart, David C
(Sorry about the format here - I honestly just subscribed to Python-dev so be gentle ...) > Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 11:25:59 -0600 > From: Eric Snow >On Aug 22, 2015 9:02 AM, "Patrascu, Alecsandru" intel.com > >wrote:[snip]> For instance, as sh