At 1:15 PM -0500 2/3/03, Guido van Rossum wrote:
At 12:00 PM +0100 2/3/03, Christian Tismer wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote: ...
If you want to bet, I'll put up $10 and a round of beer (or other beverage of your choice) at OSCON 2004 for all the python labs & zope folks that says parrot beats the current python interpreter when running all the python benchmark suite programs (that don't depend on extensions written in C, since we're shooting for pure engine performance) from bytecode. Game?
Do you mean the current Python interpreter of 2004? That could be quite a different beast...
While it could be, that's unlikely. Still, that'd be part of the ground rules we'd work out if someone takes me up on the challenge.
I'm in. Given how low you set your stakes, I don't think you're very confident, so I'd like to call your bluff. :-)
The stakes are low because I have to pony up the cash if I lose--my budget's limited, and regardless of how confident I am of winning, if I put up a lot, my wife will kill me dead for making the challenge and, well I think I'd rather avoid that. :) Shall we, then, arrange the details at OSCON 2003, if you'll be there? I expect we can twist the conference organizer's arm into letting us make a tiny announcement near the end... -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk