> Is it (PyPy) also measured with https://pyperformance.readthedocs.io/ ?

We run a different version of those benchmarks at speed.pypy.org,
where you can also see  a comparison to CPython 3.11 and CPython 3.12.
Our benchmarks still run on Python2.7 (well, PyPy 2.7) since PyPy is
written in RPython which is a python2.7 variant.

> Do you think it would be interesting and feasible to have a website showing 
> fair comparisons between different Python interpreters ?

Much ink has been spilled over what is "fair". The different
interpreters have different warmup characteristics. Speed is not
always the only factor: some people care about memory usage or other
parameters. And even getting consistent benchmarks over time is
difficult. If the goal is to track performance over time in a
sandboxed consistent environment, I think there is value in the
proposal. But a one-off "hey X is N.NN faster than Y" is going to be
problematic.

I will let others answer as for HPy.
Matti


On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 5:32 PM PIERRE AUGIER
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi HPy developers,
>
> I send this email here since it can reach people interested in HPy, and 
> PyPy/GraalPy developers.
>
> CPython 3.13 has an experimental JIT. The results in term of global 
> performance can be followed here 
> https://github.com/faster-cpython/benchmarking-public.
>
> It is still very modest (best results are something like 1.4 time faster than 
> CPython 3.10). However, there are other plans to improve CPython new JIT 
> (https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/3.14/README.md, see also 
> https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/701#issuecomment-2405979384) 
> so we can guess that CPython 3.14 and 3.15 will be (a bit?) faster.
>
> In https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/3.14/README.md, I read 
> with interest that HPy is mentioned!
>
>   #### HPy-like C API
>
>   Tagged integers will require new internal APIs to pass opaque references, 
> so we might as well add a new, consistent API modeled on 
> [HPy](https://hpyproject.org/).
>   We will use this internally to start with, but we expect tools like 
> [Cython](https://cython.org/) and
>   [Pybind11](https://github.com/pybind/pybind11) will want to use it to avoid 
> the overhead of going through the `PyObject *` based API.
>
>
> So I was wondering about the state of HPy. For example, is there a plan to 
> port Numpy 2 in HPy? What about HPy support in Cython? Do you still think HPy 
> could become more popular and used?
>
>
> Another related question is about the performance comparison between 
> different interpreters. It seems to me that the difference of performance 
> between CPython and other alternative interpreters is a strong argument for 
> HPy.
>
> Seeing the performance comparisons with different versions and commits of 
> CPython, I was wondering about similar comparisons with other interpreters 
> (in practice PyPy and GraalPy). It would be very interesting to know from 
> fair benchmarks about the performance of different interpreters.
>
> In https://github.com/oracle/graalpython, it's written "GraalPy is ~4x faster 
> than CPython on the [official Python Performance Benchmark 
> Suite](https://pyperformance.readthedocs.io/)".
>
> In https://pypy.org/, there is written "PyPy is 4.4 times faster than CPython 
> 3.7", but comparing to CPython 3.7 does not make sense nowadays. Is it also 
> measured with https://pyperformance.readthedocs.io/ ?
>
> Do you think it would be interesting and feasible to have a website showing 
> fair comparisons between different Python interpreters ?
>
> I guess a simple solution would be to use faster-cpython workflows by asking 
> them to also consider stable releases of PyPy and GraalPy. I'm going to ask 
> in https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas.
>
> Would there be a good alternative solution to get such data?
>
> Pierre Augier
>
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