Hi,

I just released performance 0.5.5 and perf 1.3. The main change is the removal of microbenchmarks from performance, you can now find them in a different project: https://github.com/haypo/pymicrobench

The perf warmup calibration is still highly unstable, and so PyPy still don't use performance yet. I began to analyze warmups manually but I was too lazy to finish the work: http://haypo-notes.readthedocs.io/pypy_warmups.html

=== performance 0.5.5 ===

• On the 2.x branch on CPython, compile now pass --enable-unicode=ucs4 to the configure script on all platforms, except on Windows which uses UTF-16 because of its 16-bit wchar_t.

• The float benchmark now uses __slots__ on the Point class.

• Remove the following microbenchmarks. They have been moved to the pymicrobench <https://github.com/haypo/pymicrobench>_ project because they are too short, not representative of real applications and are too unstable.

  • pybench microbenchmark suite
  • call_simple
  • call_method
  • call_method_unknown
  • call_method_slots
  • logging_silent: values are faster than 1 ns on PyPy with 2^27 loops! (and around 0.7 us on CPython)

• Update requirements

  • Django: 1.11 => 1.11.1
  • SQLAlchemy: 1.1.9 => 1.1.10
  • certifi: 2017.1.23 => 2017.4.17
  • perf: 1.2 => 1.3
  • mercurial: 4.1.2 => 4.2
  • tornado: 4.4.3 => 4.5.1

=== perf 1.3 ===

• Add get_loops() and get_inner_loops() methods to Run and Benchmark classes

• Documentation: add export_csv.py and plot.py examples

• Rewrite warmup calibration for PyPy:

  • Use Q1, Q3 and stdev, rather than mean and checking if the first value is an outlier
  • Always use a sample of 10 values, rather than using a sample of a variable size starting with 3 values

• Use lazy import for most imports of the largest modules to reduce the number of imported module on 'import perf'.

• Fix handling of broken pipe error to prevent logging the error: "Exception ignored in: ... BrokenPipeError: ..."

• collect_metadata gets more metadata on FreeBSD:

  • use os.getloadavg() if /proc/loadavg is not available (ex: FreeBSD)
  • use psutil.boot_time() if /proc/stat is not available (ex: FreeBSD) to get boot_time and uptime metadata

• The Runner constructor now raises an exception if more than one instance is created.

Victor