On 5 April 2011 10:23, Isaac Gouy <igo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi > > A simple yes / no question. > > Do you want PyPy to be shown in the benchmarks game or not? > > Please consider the question amongst yourselves and then let me know.
There seems to have been general confusion here about what the implementations of these benchmarks are supposed to represent. Are they to be representative of idiomatic code, or optimised for a particular implementation? Or something else entirely? Since pypy have generally tried to optimise for and encourage idiomatic python usage, those benchmark implementations that go to great length to use confusing and non-standard performance hacks represent neither the performance of real-world code, nor what one can do with a specific implementation. If the answer is that they are going to be tuned to a particular implementation and that implementation is not going to be ours, we probably *could* live with that: realistically, the sort of code people are applying pypy to occasionally contains performance hacks that are no longer relevant and possibly detrimental. But it does seem to change the meaning of the benchmark, and it would be useful to get some authoritative clarification on this before we consider it. -- William Leslie _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev