[pypy-dev] PyPy in the benchmarks game - yes or no?

[Dima Tisnek]

you guessed right. I had to guess too btw :)

here's where dicsussions about particular tests are and should go, as
there's no single point of contact for shootout:

http://alioth.debian.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=999

I'll try to find my posts about particular benchmarks I had problems with.


On 5 April 2011 00:59, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Isaac Gouy <igouy2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> A simple yes / no question.
>> Do you want PyPy to be shown in the benchmarks game or not?
>
> Sorry for missing general knowledge of what you mean by "benchmarks
> game".  According to Google, it is probably what I know as the
> language shootout (shootout.alioth.debian.org).  Is it the case?
>
> Assuming it is, then my position is pretty much the same as William
> Leslie: I have little interest if the benchmarks that PyPy runs with
> are written in completely non-idiomatic ways, super hand-optimized for
> CPython, for the reasons explained in detail by William.  It would be
> interesting, however, if you accept versions rewritten in "just plain
> Python".
>
>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.
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