[pypy-dev] alioth tests?

Leonardo Santagada santagada at gmail.com
Mon May 7 00:48:01 CEST 2012


On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:12 PM, xancorreu <xancorreu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Al 05/05/12 22:12, En/na Ronny Pfannschmidt ha escrit:
>
>> That got already covered some months ago,
>>
>> my basic understanding of the incidents that happened back then is,
>>  that alioth is not a desirable test to participate in,
>> the code/scripts are biased towards particular implementations,
>> and the maintainer has some strange ideas,
>
>
> What "strange ideas" mean?

that you can't use numpy for example, this hurts cpython in some of
the tests. IIRC he also didn't want to warm the jit which probably
hurts every language that has one.

And then there is the problem that the set of benchmarks don't map too
well to the kind of stuff you normally use python for.

> By the other hand, saying with other words: with scripts appeared in alioth,
> pypy is faster?



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Leonardo Santagada


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