[pypy-dev] Re: Test suite for basic types

[Michael Hudson]

Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> writes:

> Hello Michael,
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:19:15PM +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:
>> You're looking for test_types.
>
> Thanks!

No problem.

>> > It could also be turned into a much more accurate benchmark than
>> > that horrible PyStone !
>> 
>> Accurate in what sense?
>
> More representative of real Python code.

I don't think test_types is very representative either...

> If we do n list operations, m integer operations, p dict operations,
> q class operations, for suitable values of n, m, p and q, then it
> would probably be much more representative than this Pascal-like
> PyStone which just never tests most of Python's very common types
> and built-in functions (like 'len').

You know about mal's pybench?  It's more quantative that pystone, at
least.

Cheers,
M.

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