[pypy-dev] Waf benchmark

[Alex Gaynor]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

> 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
>
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Personally I'd be happier if it was a bit more of a microbenchmark, it's
apparently a macro-benchmark, of subprocess ATM, which makes no sense really
:)

Alex

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