[Python-Dev] Psyco testing results

[Skip Montanaro]

    Itamar> Basically, the key point is that you need to psyco.bind on the
    Itamar> right functions.

Sounds like a job for hotshot:

    http://starship.python.net/crew/fdrake/talks/IPC10-HotShot-2002-Feb-06.ppt
    http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Lib/hotshot/

    Itamar> Doing psyco.gc() just slows things down.

Not sure what psyco.gc is (I don't see it after importing psyco), but I got
3.7x speedup binding Proc0, Proc1, & Proc8.  I also instrumented Proc0 to
make sure the values of IntLoc1, IntLoc2, and IntLoc3 were the same before
and after psyco-izing.

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