Maciej Fijalkowski, 12.12.2012 20:10: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Joe Hillenbrand wrote: >> I was able to fix the issue with scrapy. >> >> https://github.com/joehillen/scrapy/commit/8778af5c5be50a5d746751352f8d710d1f24681c >> >> Unfortunately, scrapy takes twice as long in PyPy than in CPython. I suspect >> this is because lxml is twice as slow in PyPy vs CPython, which I found in >> lxml's benchmarks. >> >> Should lxml be added to the set of speed tests? > > no. lxml uses cpyext (CPython extension compatibility) that is and > will forever be slow.
Well, I don't think it would be hard for any PyPy core developer to make it twice as fast. Shouldn't be more than a day's work. Stefan _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
