[Python-Dev] pybench.py stats (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jan 5 23:17:45 EST 2004

I thought you might find this interesting. For some time I've been running pybench.py as nightly cronjob against fresh CVS checkouts and recorded the findings. Attached is a PNG diagram showing the findings.

The results are simple to interpret: there was only a very slight performance improvement over the last year.

Indeed. I don't think there was a concerted effort to speed up basic operations last year. Several library modules were sped up dramatically by C reimplementation, but of course that wouldn't be measured by pybench.

But we may have to work harder -- after all I really wouldn't like to receive pie in my face in the Parrot contest next July at OSCON!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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