Why wait? In the last year of lurking on this list, I've seen requests for a good python benchmark no less than 4 times - the most recent being damien morton's attempt to prove/disprove his optimizations. Having an "approved" good benchmark/realistic test program would make it easy to validate optimizations, and head off the consistent 'pystone is not a realistic benchmark' arguments that come up each time.... Besides, it will take a 6 months just to agree to a basic framework, and another 6 months to work around all the "competitive optimization tricks" timbot has up his sleeve... just-looking-at-it-realistically, - Dan On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 05:57 AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
Guido, when it comes time to write the benchmark program, please get in touch with me; I'd like to help produce a realistic test program.