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

Piotr Skamruk piotr.skamruk at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 21:19:15 CEST 2011


2011/4/8 Isaac Gouy <igouy2 at yahoo.com>:
> [...]
>> 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.
>
> You express both of the contrary wishes that I've heard here this week - you seem to want yes and no :-)
>
> 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.
sorry, but now it's not a comparsion of languages, but comparison of
several randomly selected programs.
remember that You are not comparing languages, but their
implementations (still that looks like randomly choosen - cpython 3.2
have much, much less usage than 2.6/2.7).



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