Interesting speed benchmark

[Mats Wichmann]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 22:32:21 -0500 (CDT), Glyph Lefkowitz
<glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

>
>On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Pete Shinners wrote:
>
>> "Mahesh Padmanabhan" <micronospampad at nospam.yahoo.com> wrote 
>> > in which the author does some (by his own admission) subjective 
>> > benchmarks between java and python. While most of it is usual 
>> > stuff, the one test that stood out was the following:
>
>Well, that's me.
>
>I suppose my little ranting essay has gone beyond its original
intention.  
>I've been getting lots of email about it this week in particular, and
this
>post just underscores the need to rewrite it ;).
>
>If you're interested, please email me suggestions as to how I can
re-do
>the comparison.  I think that the performance numbers are a bit
contrived
>and might not be a good approach to it, but I'd like to be heavy on
code
>examples and quantitative data, if possible.
>
>> it's still a whole lot slower than the java version :[
>
>I am still curious as to why this is.  It's not been an issue for me
yet
>(the one thing in Python that's irked me a little bit is the
allocation
>overhead for method calls, but even that hasn't been a serious
problem),
>but it seems odd that it should take so long.


Curious if anyone's tried this with the new object allocator available
with Python 2.1 (you have to rebuild with --with-pymalloc which I've
never gotten around to doing).

Mats Wichmann

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