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

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Sat Jun 3 11:00:14 CEST 2006

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

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.

I'm sure we can write a PyPy backend that targets Open Firmware :)

Cheers, mwh

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