[Python-Dev] Benchmarking Python 3.3 against Python 2.7 (wide build) (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Oct 1 14:23:14 CEST 2012

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > I am presenting the talk "Python 3.3: Trust Me, It's Better Than 2.7" as > PyCon Argentina and Brasil (and US if they accept the talk). As part of that > talk I need to be able to benchmark Python 3.3 against 2.7 (both from tip) > using the unladen benchmarks (which now include benchmarks from PyPy that > can be relatively easily ported to Python 3). >

Hi Brett. If you're talking about benchmarks, would be cool if you mention that pypy is actually much faster on most of them.

I will definitely mention that PyPy is actively working on Python 3 support and people should help out where they can (whether it be technical or financial) since PyPy will be faster than CPython in this regard and if you needed a good chance to switch interpreters this would be it.

BTW, now that 3.3 is out is Antonio going to aim for 3.3 compatibility for the initial release or stay back on 3.2?

Also a very sad fact is that a lot of actually interesting benchmarks don't work on py3k (although a growing number). Twisted and sympy are very informative for example

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