On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:31:07 +0100
Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:36:33 +0000
> Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> > Are we happy with the current benchmarks? Are there some we want to drop?
> > How about add? Do we want to have explanations as to why each benchmark is
> > included?
>
> There are no real explanations except the provenance of said benchmarks:
> - the benchmarks suite was originally developed for Unladen Swallow
> - some benchmarks were taken and adapted from the "Great Computer
> Language Shootout" (which I think is a poor source of benchmarks)
> - some benchmarks have been added for specific concerns that may not be
> of enough interest in general (for example micro-benchmarks of
> methods calls, or benchmarks of json / pickle performance)
That said, yes, ideally the presence or usefulness of each benchmark
should be explained somewhere ("what is this trying to measure?").
Regards
Antoine.
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