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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Dec 15 14:57:32 EST 2003

>BTW, eval() is also part of that full set, and exec is part of the >language. These invoke the Python bytecode compiler. (And Jim >Hugunin's IronPython is really slow on this, like 60x slower than >CPython; I think Jim reported that Jython was 20x slower on exec().) > >How do you plan to handle these? What if the entire benchmark was >given as a triple quoted string that was passed to the exec statement?

We agreed no eval as part of this challenge, since the point was the speed of the interpreter engine not of the compiler. I don't see that on the list of challenge points you posted earlier, though, so it was either omitted inadvertently or I got snookered. The former, I expect.

Fair enough. "No exec or eval" is now officially part of the challenge.

You know, I want you to win, at least if you can win by a great big margin. Because then we could switch to Parrot to make Python faster. I just very much doubt that you'll be able to bat CPython.

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

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