[Python-Dev] Pie-thon benchmarks

[Guido van Rossum]

> >BTW, eval() is also part of that full set, and exec is part of the
> >language.  These invoke the Python bytecode compiler.  (And Jim
> >Hugunin's IronPython is really slow on this, like 60x slower than
> >CPython; I think Jim reported that Jython was 20x slower on exec().)
> >
> >How do you plan to handle these?  What if the entire benchmark was
> >given as a triple quoted string that was passed to the exec statement?
> 
> We agreed no eval as part of this challenge, since the point was the 
> speed of the interpreter engine not of the compiler. I don't see that 
> on the list of challenge points you posted earlier, though, so it was 
> either omitted inadvertently or I got snookered. The former, I expect.

Fair enough.  "No exec or eval" is now officially part of the
challenge.

You know, I *want* you to win, at least if you can win by a great big
margin.  Because then we could switch to Parrot to make Python
faster.  I just very much doubt that you'll be able to bat CPython.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)