[Python-Dev] Avoiding CPython performance regressions

[Stewart, David C]

On 12/1/15, 10:56 AM, "Maciej Fijalkowski" <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:



>Hi David.
>
>Any reason you run a tiny tiny subset of benchmarks?

We could always run more. There are so many in the full set in https://hg.python.org/benchmarks/ with such divergent results that it seems hard to see the forest because there are so many trees. I'm more interested in gradually adding to the set rather than the huge blast of all of them in daily email. Would you disagree?

Part of the reason that I monitor ssbench so closely on Python 2 is that Swift is a major element in cloud computing (and OpenStack in particular) and has ~70% of its cycles in Python.

We are really interested in workloads which are representative of the way Python is used by a lot of people and which produce repeatable results. (and which are open source). Do you have a suggestions?

Dave