[Python-Dev] Mercurial repository for Python benchmarks

[Collin Winter]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Collin Winter <collinwinter at google.com> wrote:
> Hey Daniel,
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Daniel Stutzbach
> <daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Collin Winter <collinwinter at google.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Would it be possible for us to get a Mercurial repository on
>>> python.org for the Unladen Swallow benchmarks? Maciej and I would like
>>> to move the benchmark suite out of Unladen Swallow and into
>>> python.org, where all implementations can share it and contribute to
>>> it. PyPy has been adding some benchmarks to their copy of the Unladen
>>> benchmarks, and we'd like to have as well, and Mercurial seems to be
>>> an ideal solution to this.
>>
>> If and when you have a benchmark repository set up, could you announce it
>> via a reply to this thread?  I'd like to check it out.
>
> Will do.

The benchmarks repository is now available at
http://hg.python.org/benchmarks/. It contains all the benchmarks that
the Unladen Swallow svn repository contains, including the beginnings
of a README.txt that describes the available benchmarks and a
quick-start guide for running perf.py (the main interface to the
benchmarks). This will eventually contain all the information from
http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/Benchmarks, as well as
guidelines on how to write good benchmarks.

If you have svn commit access, you should be able to run `hg clone
ssh://hg@hg.python.org/repos/benchmarks`. I'm not sure how to get
read-only access; Dirkjan can comment on that.

Still todo:
- Replace the static snapshots of 2to3, Mercurial and other hg-based
projects with clones of the respective repositories.
- Fix the 2to3 and nbody benchmarks to work with Python 2.5 for Jython and PyPy.
- Import some of the benchmarks PyPy has been using.

Any access problems with the hg repo should be directed to Dirkjan.
Thanks so much for getting the repo set up so fast!

Thanks,
Collin Winter