need fast parser for comma/space delimited numbers

Tony McDonald tony.mcdonald at ncl.ac.uk
Mon Mar 20 03:06:55 EST 2000


In article <etdem96rar0.fsf at w20-575-110.mit.edu>, Alex 
<alex at somewhere.round.here> wrote:

> > what pystones are you getting on  your Sparc 10?
> 
> athena% ./src/Python-1.5.1/Lib/test/pystone.py
> Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 3.06
> This machine benchmarks at 3267.97 pystones/second
> 
> I have never used pystone before, so please let me know if this is the
> right way.  Noone has bothered to upgrade python for a while around
> here, but if you can't get the figures from anyone else, I can
> temporarily install the latest python and run pystone on that, too.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Alex

That seems the right way to use it Alex.
Thanks for taking the time out to do that - I'm going to have a little 
look around our systems here and do some snooping. Our most powerful Sun 
box (Enterprise 450) if I remember rightly) gets 4500 pystones.

I believe that there is a small performance gain in using 1.5.2 so 
perhaps you ought to upgrade?

thanks again,
tone.



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