Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Developing a benchmark suite (for Python 3.x)

2011-04-08 Thread Anthony Scopatz
and will you complain if we don't provide a custom cython hacks? (like providing extra type information) I don't consider providing extra type information a hack. Remember that they are only used for additional speed-ups in cases where the author is smarter than the compiler.

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Developing a benchmark suite (for Python 3.x)

2011-04-07 Thread Anthony Scopatz
Hi Daniel, Thanks for putting this together. I am a huge supporter of benchmarking efforts. My brief comment is below. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:52 AM, DasIch dasdas...@googlemail.com wrote: 1. Definition of the benchmark suite. This will entail contacting developers of Python

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Developing a benchmark suite (for Python 3.x)

2011-04-07 Thread Anthony Scopatz
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.ukwrote: On 07/04/2011 22:41, Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:32:24 -0400 Tres Seavertsea...@palladion.com wrote: Right now, we are talking about building speed.python.org to test the speed of python

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Developing a benchmark suite (for Python 3.x)

2011-04-07 Thread Anthony Scopatz
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.ukwrote: *some* good benchmarks in place (and the pypy ones are good ones). Agreed. The PyPy ones are good. So I'm still with Jesse on this one. If there is any discussion phase as part of the Gsoc project it should be

Re: [Python-Dev] [GSoC] Developing a benchmark suite (for Python 3.x)

2011-04-07 Thread Anthony Scopatz
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk wrote: On 08/04/2011 00:36, Anthony Scopatz wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk wrote: On 07/04