[Python-Dev] Re: new bytecode results

[Dan Wolfe]

Why wait?

In the last year of lurking on this list, I've seen requests for a good 
python benchmark no less than 4 times - the most recent being damien 
morton's attempt to prove/disprove his optimizations.

Having an "approved" good benchmark/realistic test program would make 
it easy to validate optimizations, and head off the consistent 'pystone 
is not a realistic benchmark' arguments that come up each time....

Besides, it will take a 6 months just to agree to a basic framework, 
and another 6 months to work around all the "competitive optimization 
tricks" timbot has up his sleeve...

just-looking-at-it-realistically,

- Dan

On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 05:57  AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:

> Guido, when it comes time to write the benchmark program, please get 
> in touch with me; I'd like to help produce a realistic test program.