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

[Damon McCormick]

The benchmark game also compares on code size.  So if PyPy provides better
performance with smaller code size (i.e. if allows you to write something in
the most concise, Pythonic way and get great performance), this may not show
up unless PyPy can run a different version of a benchmark that actually uses
less code.

(Disclaimer: it's been a few years since I looked at the benchmark game
Python programs.  Maybe they're already written very concisely, in which
case this point is moot)

-Damon


On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It does make sense to compare CPython and
> > PyPy on the same set of benchmarks (actually that's what we do with
> > speed.pypy.org, we deliberately tried to avoid modifying benchmarks).
>
> But speed.pypy.org is about comparing cpython vs pypy, whereas
> the benchmark game compares a lot of quite different laguages, that
> is not exactly the same thing. So, that may warrant different rules...
>
> --
> Vincent Legoll
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