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

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Isaac Gouy <igouy2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- On Fri, 4/8/11, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I guess a lot of discussions are about getting some sort of
>> consensus. I see this one is so you can know what we think
>> and that's it. Well, that comes as a bit of surprise.
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> I don't know why that would come as any surprise - "Of course, I'll make up my own mind but at least I'll be able to take your wishes into account."
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> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pypy/7303
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>> I think it's super stupid to remove Tracemonkey, LuaJIT and
>> PyPy from it, but that's as you pointed out *your* website.
>> On the other hand it's good, because people won't cite the
>> computer language shootout anymore and those benchmarks are
>> more silly than they have to be.
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> You express both of the contrary wishes that I've heard here this week - you seem to want yes and no :-)

No. I think it's bad for you good for us.

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> fwiw someone did write - "While a comparison between languages may be interesting, maybe having 1 implementation per language in the shootout would work better." - let's hope at least they are happy now.
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I sure hope so.

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