On 5 April 2011 13:38, Isaac Gouy <igo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > --- On Tue, 4/5/11, Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> wrote: > >> what I know as the language shootout (shootout.alioth.debian.org). >> Is it the case? > > > The project was renamed back on 20th April 2007 > > http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreatComputerLanguageShootout > > > >> Assuming it is, then my position is pretty much the same as >> William Leslie: I have little interest if the benchmarks that >> PyPy runs with are written in completely non-idiomatic ways, >> super hand-optimized for CPython, for the reasons explained in >> detail by William. It would be interesting, however, if you >> accept versions rewritten in "just plain Python". > > > I have no objection to programs written in "just plain Python" - just as I > have no objection to programs written "in completely non-idiomatic ways, > super hand-optimized for CPython". > > However, unless there was something interesting about them - such as PyPy > made them fast - they might be weeded out in the future. > > In most cases I do have an objection to numpy and to calling C using ctypes - > programs have to be more "plain Python" than that.
Perhaps there should be separate categories for "python" and "numpy" for benchmarks where it makes sense? _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
