[pypy-dev] Waf benchmark

[Stefan Behnel]

Maciej Fijalkowski, 11.04.2011 11:53:
> I propose the waf benchmark removal.
>
> Originally, the idea was that we're slower than CPython for no good
> reason. Now that this benchmark measures some obscure piece of stdlib
> time (subprocesses) I don't think it's that necessary.
>
> Besides:
>
> * the variation between runs is too big, so we don't care
> * noone was ever remotely interested in speeding this up
>
> any opinions?

Despite the relatively large variations, Cython runs this benchmark 
persistently ~1/3 faster than CPython 2.7 for me - minus the currently 
missing support for "__file__", which is used at build time here. So my 
vote would be to leave it in, maybe someone has an incentive to speed this 
up once you have bars up for Cython. :)

Stefan