[pypy-dev] Benchmarks

[Alex Gaynor]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/07/11 01:20, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm a bit worried with our current benchmarks state. We have around 4
> > benchmarks that had reasonable slowdowns recently and we keep putting
> > new features that speed up other things. How can we even say we have
> > actually fixed the original issue? Can we have a policy of not merging
> > new performance features before having a story why benchmarks got
> > slower?
>
> I think we really need to have support for branches on codespeed. Then, we
> can
> have a policy that a branch can be merged only if none of the benchmarks
> slows
> down.
>
> I heard that someone is working on it, but nothing concrete AFAIK, so I'm
> considering to do the work by myself (although I would prefer to work on
> something more in the core :-/)
>
> ciao,
> Anto
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Isn't there a GSOC on that?

Anyway +1 from me, if there's a regression it needs to be fixed, or
reverted.

Alex

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