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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Dec 16 02:00:10 EST 2003

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.

For this to be thinkable, and for the test to be fair, Parrot must be at least as semantically 'broad' as CPython (ie, handle every possible meaning of every bytecode). So I would include at least the syntax and standard lib test files (- exec and eval tests) as part of the benchmark. This also gets to the 'provably correct' aspect of the rules.

Terry J. Reedy

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