Update of /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/sandbox/parrotbench In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv19327 Modified Files: README.txt Log Message: Notes on __debug__ and timing. Index: README.txt =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/sandbox/parrotbench/README.txt,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -C2 -d -r1.2 -r1.3 *** README.txt 31 Dec 2003 07:54:58 -0000 1.2 --- README.txt 31 Dec 2003 16:38:33 -0000 1.3 *************** *** 64,66 **** --- 64,78 ---- objects. + On the use of __debug__: this is a built-in variable, set to True + normally and to False when Python is invoked with -O. I use this to + produce verbose output without -O but minimal output with it. For the + actual benchmark, Python should use -O, and Dan can simply set + __debug__ to False in the builtins if he prefers. + + On timing: there's a requirement that the benchmark runs for at least + 30 seconds. It currently runs for nearly a minute on my home box, + which is a four-year-old 650 MHz Pentium box. If the contest hardware + is so fast that it runs under a minute, there's a number in b.py that + can be cranked up to increase the number of runs. + --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)