[Python-Dev] Tuning Python dicts

[Reid Kleckner]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Daniel Stutzbach
<daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote:
> I don't know what benchmarks were used to write dictnotes.txt, but moving
> forward I would recommend implementing your changes on trunk (i.e., Python
> 2.x) and running the Unladen Swallow Benchmarks, which you can get from the
> link below:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/Benchmarks

I'm a contributor, actually.  ;)

> They are macro-benchmarks on real applications.  You will probably also want
> to write some micro-benchmarks of your own so that you can pinpoint any
> bottlenecks in your code and determine where you are ahead of the current
> dict implementation and where you are behind.

What I really wanted to do was to find the benchmarks for the
experiments discussed in dictnotex.txt so I could put them in the
unladen benchmark repository, which now lives at hg.python.org.

Since no one knows where they are, I think my next step will be to go
back and see who wrote what parts of that file and contact them
individually.

Reid