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[Python-Dev] Information about how cpython in benchmarked

Nick Stinemates nstinemates at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 07:19:21 CEST 2011 
This is really great to hear and something I would be hugely interested in
contributing to.

Lurking has paid off :)

Nick

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg
> <tleeuwenburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > PyPy maintains http://speed.pypy.org/, which provides very clear
> information
> > about the relative performance of PyPy trunk against some version of
> cpython
> > (presumably 2.6 or 2.7). I'm not aware of a similar site for cpython, but
> > that could easily just be my ignorance speaking.
> > My interest is that I'm looking at building a benchmarking solution at
> work.
> > and I can't think of a better way to build something good and general
> than
> > to try and write something that could potentially be released as open
> source
> > and be useful to others. As such I thought that benchmarking cpython
> would
> > be a great use case, but I want to find out as much as I can about how
> > people currently go about benchmarking Python. Initially I'm just looking
> at
> > CPU profiling since it's easiest.
>
> One of the points coming out of the VM summit at Pycon is actually
> that we want to create a shared benchmarking site for CPython, PyPy,
> Jython, IronPython (and possibly Stackless) under the python.org
> banner (either speed.python.org, or possibly performance.python.org,
> since we want to do memory profiling as well).
>
> speed.pypy.org will be the reference site for this, but Maciej
> indicated at the VM summit that the code that runs that site needs
> some improvements before it will really be up to the task of
> effectively benchmarking multiple targets.
>
> So, according to http://speed.pypy.org/about/, the place to start with
> your benchmarking system would probably be
> https://github.com/tobami/codespeed.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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