[Python-Dev] performance testing recommendations in devguide

[Antoine Pitrou]

Hi,

On Wed, 29 May 2013 21:59:21 +0300
Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> [1] "pybench - run the standard Python PyBench benchmark suite. This is considered
> an unreliable, unrepresentative benchmark; do not base decisions
> off it. It is included only for completeness."

"unrepresentative" is the main criticism against pybench. PyBench is a
suite of micro-benchmarks (almost nano-benchmarks, actually :-)) that
don't try to simulate any real-world situation.

PyBench may also be unreliable, because its tests are so static that
they could be optimized away by a clever enough (JIT) compiler.

Regards

Antoine.