Brad Clements wrote:

I'm sorry if this is OT. I have just managed to get Python 2.3a running on an 8meg m68k-nommu 48MHZ (motorola uC5272 board).

It's a real dog, and I'm wondering two things:

1. anyone remember pystone values from old Sun 68K machines? I've seen a report

that a Psion 5 running 1.5.2 got 90 pystones (I get 72)

2. any ideas how I can speed this up?

OPT=-DNDEBUG -g -O0 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -m5307

Some snips from pyconfig.h:

#define WITH_DOC_STRINGS #undef Py_DEBUG #define WITH_PYMALLOC

I'd try to trim down the memory footprint of the interpreter as far as possible, e.g. rip out doc-strings and more or less everything you don't really need.

I haven't enabled optimatization yet because I've had such a difficult time even getting this far, I didn't want to run into compiler errors.

It seems so slow, that test/testall doesn't even produce any output. At least, not after 2 minutes.. Perhaps that's a buffering issue.

# ./python pystone.py nulltime 0.04 Pystone(1.1) time for 600 passes = 8.27 This machine benchmarks at 72.5514 pystones/second

Hmm, are you sure you want to invest more time in this ? ...

Python/Dev-Python> pythondev Lib/test/pystone.py Pystone(1.1) time for 50000 passes = 2.48 This machine benchmarks at 20161.3 pystones/second

What's the application space that you intend to use Python for on that platform ?