[Python-Dev] performance testing recommendations in devguide (original) (raw)

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Wed May 29 22:04:34 CEST 2013

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Hi, On Wed, 29 May 2013 21:59:21 +0300 Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno at outlook.com> wrote:

[1] "pybench - run the standard Python PyBench benchmark suite. This is considered an unreliable, unrepresentative benchmark; do not base decisions off it. It is included only for completeness." "unrepresentative" is the main criticism against pybench. PyBench is a suite of micro-benchmarks (almost nano-benchmarks, actually :-)) that don't try to simulate any real-world situation. PyBench may also be unreliable, because its tests are so static that they could be optimized away by a clever enough (JIT) compiler. Regards Antoine.

For what is worth PyBench is bad because it's micro-only. A lot of stuff only shows up in larger examples, especially on an optimizing compiler. The proposed list contains also only micro-benchmarks, which will have the exact same problem as pybench.

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