[Python-Dev] [Speed] speed.python.org

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 02:05:26 EST 2016


On 6 February 2016 at 04:07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 at 05:46 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Heh, cdecimal utterly demolishing the old pure Python decimal module
>> on the telco benchmark means normalising against CPython 3.5 rather
>> than 2.7 really isn't very readable :)
>
> I find viewing the graphs using the horizontal layout is much easier to read
> (the bars are a lot thicker and everything zooms in more).

That comment was based on the horizontal layout - the telco benchmark
runs ~53x faster in Python 3 than it does in Python 2 (without
switching to cdecimal), so you end up with all the other benchmarks
being squashed into the leftmost couple of grid cells.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia


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