The benchmark game also compares on code size. So if PyPy provides better performance with smaller code size (i.e. if allows you to write something in the most concise, Pythonic way and get great performance), this may not show up unless PyPy can run a different version of a benchmark that actually uses less code.<div>
<br></div><div>(Disclaimer: it's been a few years since I looked at the benchmark game Python programs. Maybe they're already written very concisely, in which case this point is moot)</div><div><div><br></div><div>
-Damon</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Vincent Legoll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vincent.legoll@gmail.com">vincent.legoll@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <<a href="mailto:fijall@gmail.com">fijall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> It does make sense to compare CPython and<br>
> PyPy on the same set of benchmarks (actually that's what we do with<br>
> <a href="http://speed.pypy.org" target="_blank">speed.pypy.org</a>, we deliberately tried to avoid modifying benchmarks).<br>
<br>
</div>But <a href="http://speed.pypy.org" target="_blank">speed.pypy.org</a> is about comparing cpython vs pypy, whereas<br>
the benchmark game compares a lot of quite different laguages, that<br>
is not exactly the same thing. So, that may warrant different rules...<br>
<br>
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