On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 at 15:08 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > For the first release of the "new" benchmark suite, I chose the name > "performance", since "benchmark" and "benchmarks" names were already > reserved on PyPI. It's the name of the Python module, but also of the > command line tool: "pyperformance". > > Since there is an "old" benchmark suite > (https://hg.python.org/benchmarks), PyPy has its benchmark suite, etc. > I propose to rename the GitHub project to "performance" to avoid > confusion. > > What do you think? > If you want to do then go ahead, but I don't think it will be a big issue in the grand scheme of things. > > Note: I'm not a big fan of the "performance" name, but I don't think > it matters much. The name only needs to be unique and available on > PyPI :-D > > By the way, I don't know if it's worth it to have a "pyperformance" > command line tool. You can already use "python3 -m performance ..." > syntax. But you have to recall the Python version used to install the > module. "python2 -m performance ..." doesn't work if you only > installed performance for Python 3! > As Antoine pointed out, if it doesn't matter what interpreter has the script installed to run the benchmarks against another interpreter than a script makes sense (but do keep it available through -m).
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