On 4/18/06, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Baxter wrote: > > On Thursday 06 April 2006 04:10, Benji York wrote: > >> On a related note: it might be nice to put a pystone run in the > >> buildbot so it'd be easier to compare pystones across different > >> releases, different architectures, and between particular changes > >> to the code. (That's assuming that the machines are otherwise idle, > >> though.) -- > > -1. > > > > A bad benchmark (which pystone is) is much worse than no benchmark. > > I could contribute pybench to the Tools/ directory if that > makes a difference:
I'd find that helpful. Jeremy > > pybench -- The Python Benchmark Suite > > Extendable suite of of low-level benchmarks for measuring > the performance of the Python implementation > (interpreter, compiler or VM). > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > WHAT IS IT ?: > > pybench is a collection of tests that provides a standardized way > to measure the performance of Python implementations. It takes a > very close look at different aspects of Python programs and let's > you decide which factors are more important to you than others, > rather than wrapping everything up in one number, like the other > performance tests do (e.g. pystone which is included in the Python > Standard Library). > > pybench has been used in the past by several Python developers to > track down performance bottlenecks or to demonstrate the impact > of optimizations and new features in Python. > > There's currently no documentation and no distutils support in > pybench; that'll go into one of the next releases. For now, > please read the source code. The command line interface for pybench > is the file pybench.py. Run this script with option '--help' > to get a listing of the possible options. Without options, > pybench will simply execute the benchmark and then print out > a report to stdout. Here's some sample output: > """ > Tests: per run per oper. overhead > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > BuiltinFunctionCalls: 131.50 ms 1.03 us 0.50 ms > BuiltinMethodLookup: 195.85 ms 0.37 us 1.00 ms > CompareFloats: 126.00 ms 0.28 us 1.00 ms > CompareFloatsIntegers: 201.05 ms 0.45 us 0.50 ms > CompareIntegers: 192.05 ms 0.21 us 2.00 ms > CompareInternedStrings: 117.65 ms 0.24 us 3.50 ms > ... > TryExcept: 289.75 ms 0.19 us 3.00 ms > TryRaiseExcept: 179.05 ms 11.94 us 1.00 ms > TupleSlicing: 159.75 ms 1.52 us 0.50 ms > UnicodeMappings: 171.85 ms 9.55 us 1.00 ms > UnicodePredicates: 152.05 ms 0.68 us 4.00 ms > UnicodeProperties: 203.00 ms 1.01 us 4.00 ms > UnicodeSlicing: 190.10 ms 1.09 us 2.00 ms > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Average round time: 10965.00 ms > """ > > This is the current version: > > http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/pybench-1.2.zip > > -- > Marc-Andre Lemburg > eGenix.com > > Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Apr 18 2006) > >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ > >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ > >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/jeremy%40alum.mit.edu > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
