[Python-Dev] Python Benchmarks

[M.-A. Lemburg]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     MAL> I'm aware of that thread, but Fredrik only posted some vague
>     MAL> comment to the checkins list, saying that they couldn't use
>     MAL> pybench. I asked for some more details, but he didn't get back to
>     MAL> me.
> 
> I'm pretty sure I saw him (or maybe Andrew Dalke) post some timing
> comparisons between pybench and stringbench.  Something about a change not
> impacting performance showing a 60% slowdown on pybench but no change using
> stringbench.  Maybe Fredrik had his iTunes volume cranked up too high... ;-)

This is possible since pybench uses a long run strategy, whereas
stringbench uses the timeit.py short run method.

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