[pypy-dev] Proposal for a common benchmark suite

[DasIch]

Hello,
As announced in my GSoC proposal I'd like to announce which benchmarks
I'll use for the benchmark suite I will work on this summer.

As of now there are two benchmark suites (that I know of) which
receive some sort of attention, those are the ones developed as part
of the PyPy project[1] which is used for http://speed.pypy.org and the
one initially developed for Unladen Swallow which has been continued
by CPython[2]. The PyPy benchmarks contain a lot of interesting
benchmarks some explicitly developed for that suite, the CPython
benchmarks have an extensive set of microbenchmarks in the pybench
package as well as the previously mentioned modifications made to the
Unladen Swallow benchmarks.

I'd like to "simply" merge both suites so that no changes are lost.
However I'd like to leave out the waf benchmark which is part of the
PyPy suite, the removal was proposed on pypy-dev for obvious
deficits[3]. It will be easier to add a better benchmark later than
replacing it at a later point.

Unless there is a major issue with this plan I'd like to go forward with this.

.. [1]: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/benchmarks
.. [2]: http://hg.python.org/benchmarks
.. [3]: http://mailrepository.com/pypy-dev.codespeak.net/msg/3627509/