FYI. Performance comparison of pypy and CPython using a fractal terrain generator and writing out a png file. Pypy is 6-11x faster on my Ubuntu Intel system.
For 1024x1024 map: sriley@xxxy:/data/src/cityserver$ time pypy map.py real 0m0.656s user 0m0.596s sys 0m0.052s sriley@xxx:/data/src/cityserver$ time python map.py real 0m4.189s user 0m4.132s sys 0m0.044s For 4096x4096 map: sriley@xxx:/data/src/cityserver$ time pypy map.py real 0m6.511s user 0m6.152s sys 0m0.328s sriley@xxx:/data/src/cityserver$ time python map.py real 1m7.641s user 1m7.124s sys 0m0.324s Sean.
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