Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
Awesome! We need timing results on some other platforms (Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX).
OpenBSD 3.3, i386 2.4Ghz P4 Celeron, 256MB, 128kB cache before after ------ ----- 1.2 0.64 1.15 0.60 1.16 0.60 1.16 0.60 1.16 0.61 1.15 0.60 1.13 0.61 1.15 0.59 1.14 0.62 1.15 0.60 before: 15773 pystones, 29.9 mPB after: 12690 pystones, 31.4 mPB Switch back to CVS: 19531, 19379, 19531, 19379, 19305, 19084 pystones, 31.4 mPB Switch back to Tim's patch: 15015, 15480, 14588 pystones should not need, but: make clean && make (just make on previous, only listobject.c being recompiled) Still patched: 13158, 14006, 13193; restart python; 15923, 16722, 16023 restart python; 12953, 13698, 12953, 13513 Well, pystones are all over the map on this box. But the improvement is there for punchit and the parrotbench benchmark is solid across the change. -- KBK