[Python-Dev] Re: Dictionary tuning (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy@udel.edu
Thu, 1 May 2003 11:27:34 -0400

From my curious user viewpoint ...

"Michael Hudson" <mwh@python.net> wrote in message news:2m65ouahg6.fsf@starship.python.net...

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> [Tim] >> > The benchmarking suite should also be checked in, and should be >> > very welcome. Perhaps it's time for a "benchmark" subdirectory >> > under Lib/test? It doesn't make much sense even now that pystone >> > and sortperf live directly in the test directory.

>> Works for me. Can we perhaps decide whether we want to do this in the >> near future? I am going to be writing up module docs for the test package >> and if we are going to end up moving them I would like to be get this >> written into the docs the first time through.

> Should the benchmarks directory be part of the distribution, or should > it be in the nondist part of the CVS tree?

I can't think why you'd want it in nondist, unless they depend on huge input files or something.

Terry J. Reedy