[pypy-dev] PyPy 1.1 beta release

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

Jacob Hallén wrote:
> söndagen den 19 april 2009 skrev Samuele Pedroni:
> 
>>   - Through a large number of tweaks, performance has been improved by
>>     10%-50% since the 1.0 release. The Python interpreter is now between
>>     0.8-2x (and in some corner case 3-4x) of the speed of CPython. A large
>>     part of these speed-ups come from our new generational garbage
>>     collectors.
> 
> I think this formulation is a bit confusing. It is not our speed that is 
> 0.8-2x CPython, it is our performance relative to CPython that is between 0.8 
> and 2, with 0.8 meaning that we are faster than CPython on those benchmarks, 
> and 2 meaning that we need twice the time to run the benchmark.
> 

we noticed, and fixed it on the webpage and on the blog. final release 
announcement will go out in this form as well.

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich