[Python-Dev] Re: Are we collecting benchmark results across machines

[Alex Martelli]

On Friday 02 January 2004 04:18 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Anyway, the ability of optionally passing in the number of
> > iterations on the command line would also help with your opposite
> > problem of too-fast machines -- if 50k loops just aren't enough for
> > a reasonably-long run, you could use more.
>
> Yup.  As a matter of historical detail, pystone used to have LOOPS set
> to 1000; in 1997 I changed it to 10K, and in 2002 I bumped it again to
> 50K.
>
> BTW, I'd gladly receive your patch for parameterizing LOOPS for
> inclusion into the standard Python library.

OK, I committed the modified pystone.py directly (I hope the change is
small and "marginal" enough not to need formal review -- easy enough
to back off if I've made some 'oops', anyway...).


Alex