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

[Dima Tisnek]

btw, benchmark game also tracks memory footprint, pypy is a little
liberal here for small benchmarks, which there are many.

On 7 April 2011 10:15, Damon McCormick <damonmc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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