[Python-Dev] pystone rant [was] proposal+patch: sys.gettickeraccumulation()

[Anthony Baxter]

On Monday 06 December 2004 11:33, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> pystone is good a predicting the relative performance of python apps on
> difference hardware/software environments.

This comes up so often that I'm almost tempted to add a disclaimer
to the pystone output. I can't count the number of times people have
tried to claim that pystone showed that a change was good/neutral.