[Python-Dev] Pie-thon benchmarks (original) (raw)

Dan Sugalski dan at sidhe.org
Sun Dec 14 13:27:37 EST 2003

At 9:23 AM -0800 12/14/03, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Not to push, folks, but the python dev community was going to write

the benchmark program for the pie-off Guido and I are going to have at OSCON 2004. We're supposed to have the bytecode for the program frozen by the end of December 2003, a mere 16 days away. (I could just go with pystone, I suppose, but even .NET's faster on that one...) I am well aware of this. I've got some ideas and am working on them. Do you remember the exact set of rules we agreed on? I think metaclasses are in, and I/O is out, but I don't recall whether regular expressions are in or out.

Regexes were out. As I remember the challenge was pure interpreter speed, so no dependence on IO or external modules. I'll go see if I can dig out the rules. (You might have 'em on disk if you save old presentations -- I'm pretty sure you had 'em up on the projector during the announcement (or if it was me I've lost 'em :))

                                     Dan

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