[Python-Dev] Python Benchmarks (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Sat Jun 3 05:52:10 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Tim Peters wrote: > I liked benchmarking on Crays in the good old days. ... > Test times were reproducible to the > nanosecond with no effort. Running on a modern box for a few > microseconds at a time is a way to approximate that, provided you > measure the minimum time with a high-resolution timer :-) Obviously what we need here is a stand-alone Python interpreter that runs on the bare machine, so there's no pesky operating system around to mess up our times.

An early version of unununium would do that (I don't know if much progress has been made since I last checked their site).

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