It's probably an ok benchmark of warmup. Alex
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 19 August 2016 at 01:55, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 2016-08-18 8:48 GMT+02:00 Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org>: > >>> Indeed, bzr cannot be installed on PyPy because it uses Cython in a > >>> strange way: it declares and directly pokes inside PyListObjects from > >>> a .pyx file. But note that bzr (seems to) have systematically a pure > >>> Python version of all its .pyx files. (...) > >> > >> bazar is only used for a "startup" benchmark. I don't think that such > >> benchmark is very interesting... I would prefer to see a benchmark on > >> a less dummy operation on the repository than displaying the help... > > > > Simple commands like displaying help messages are where interpreter > > startup time dominates the end user experience for applications > > written in Python, though. For example, improvements to import system > > performance tend to mostly show up there - for longer running > > benchmarks, changes in startup time tend to get swamped by the actual > > runtime speed, while the baseline "python -c 'pass'" mainly varies > > based on how many modules we're implicitly importing at startup rather > > than how well the import system is performing . > > > > Cheers, > > Nick. > > I would still argue that displaying help is not a very good benchmark :-) > _______________________________________________ > Speed mailing list > Speed@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/speed > -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero GPG Key fingerprint: D1B3 ADC0 E023 8CA6
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