Chris Rebert wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:25 AM, alexru <tara...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there any standardized interpreter speed evaluation tool? Say I >> made few changes in interpreter code and want to know if those changes >> made python any better, which test should I use? > > Although apparently undocumented, test.pystone is some sort of > interpreter benchmark. > It's undocumented because it's not considered a representative benchmark.Sure, you can use it to get *some* idea of relative performance, but a single program is a very poor tool for such a complex topic a comparing implementations of a dynamic language.
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