On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> Can we disable by default disabling the cyclic gc in timeit module? >> Often posts on pypy-dev or on pypy bugs contain usage of timeit module >> which might change the performance significantly. A good example is >> json benchmarks - you would rather not disable cyclic GC when running >> a web app, so encoding/decoding json in benchmark with the cyclic GC >> disabled does not make sense. >> >> What do you think? > > No, it's disabled by default for a reason (to avoid irrelevant noise > in microbenchmarks), and other cases don't trump those original use > cases.
People don't use it only for microbenchmarks though. Also, you can't call noise a thing that adds something every now and then I think. Er. How is disabling the GC for microbenchmarks any good by the way? Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ 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
