Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim Peters wrote: > >> I liked benchmarking on Crays in the good old days. ... > > Test times were reproducible to the >> nanosecond with no effort. Running on a modern box for a few >> microseconds at a time is a way to approximate that, provided you >> measure the minimum time with a high-resolution timer :-) > > Obviously what we need here is a stand-alone Python interpreter > that runs on the bare machine, so there's no pesky operating > system around to mess up our times.
I'm sure we can write a PyPy backend that targets Open Firmware :) Cheers, mwh -- <exarkun> speak of the devil <moshez> exarkun: froor <exarkun> not you -- from Twisted.Quotes _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
