On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Massa, Harald Armin, 18.07.2011 23:30: >> >> I recommend to wrap the code and release it with the subtitle "the 4 times >> faster release" > > Just nitpicking here, but you shouldn't forget that any given set of > benchmarks can only ever be an arbitrary one. If you change the current set, > you can rightfully make any claim from "PyPy is 100x faster than CPython on > average" to "CPython is substantially faster than PyPy". Taking the average > is a nice addition right below the graphs on speed.pypy.org, but makes no > sense at all without this context.
Of course :) No single number would ever describe the speed of something as complex as a python interpreter (unless the number is 42 of course). However, there were request to reduce it to that and here we have one. I don't think "4x faster now!" is a good marketing slogan even. What's significant however is that it's getting faster with each release. Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
