[Python-Dev] Information about how cpython in benchmarked (original) (raw)

Tennessee Leeuwenburg tleeuwenburg at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 02:24:14 CEST 2011

Hi Nick, Jesse,

Thanks both for your responses, it's much appreciated! It's very useful to have a clear pointer to the right place to begin looking.

Regards, -Tennessee

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg > <tleeuwenburg at gmail.com> wrote: >> PyPy maintains http://speed.pypy.org/, which provides very clear information >> about the relative performance of PyPy trunk against some version of cpython >> (presumably 2.6 or 2.7). I'm not aware of a similar site for cpython, but >> that could easily just be my ignorance speaking. >> My interest is that I'm looking at building a benchmarking solution at work. >> and I can't think of a better way to build something good and general than >> to try and write something that could potentially be released as open source >> and be useful to others. As such I thought that benchmarking cpython would >> be a great use case, but I want to find out as much as I can about how >> people currently go about benchmarking Python. Initially I'm just looking at >> CPU profiling since it's easiest. > > One of the points coming out of the VM summit at Pycon is actually > that we want to create a shared benchmarking site for CPython, PyPy, > Jython, IronPython (and possibly Stackless) under the python.org > banner (either speed.python.org, or possibly performance.python.org, > since we want to do memory profiling as well). > > speed.pypy.org will be the reference site for this, but Maciej > indicated at the VM summit that the code that runs that site needs > some improvements before it will really be up to the task of > effectively benchmarking multiple targets. > > So, according to http://speed.pypy.org/about/, the place to start with > your benchmarking system would probably be > https://github.com/tobami/codespeed. > > Cheers, > Nick.

Essentially echoing what nick said. I'm currently working on getting the HW for this together.

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