Hi.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:58 AM, René Dudfield <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think richards does not reflect what they do at google (like pickling
>> :-)
>
> Hi,
>
> yeah, their project goals are to speed up things that are interesting for
> them.  Not to speed up things in general - but to speed up google projects
> running on python.  ie, they want to speed up their own code mostly.  They
> also run a number of python projects test suites, and use them to benchmark
> too.  I imagine they benchmark google apps internally too.
>
> their recent talk describes their recent work - and also the work of
> speedups like the wpython project:
>     http://unladen-swallow.googlecode.com/files/Unladen_Swallow_PyCon.pdf
>
> wpython:
>     http://code.google.com/p/wpython/
>
> http://wpython.googlecode.com/files/Beyond%20Bytecode%20-%20A%20Wordcode-based%20Python.pdf

thanks for links.

>
>
> The programming language shootout tests would seem a useful set of
> benchmarks to compare against other languages.
>   eg.
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=pypy&lang2=python&box=1
>
> Note, they have old pythons there... that is cpython 2.5.2 and pypy 1.1 in
> their comparisons.
>

I have also no clue how they did those benchmarks. I was trying to repeat them,
but was unable to get even close to that numbers. Also, I failed at
reporting it to
them since you need to create an account there and account creation did not work
too well...

Cheers,
fijal
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