Python Performance

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Nick Trout
| 
| Are there any pieces of test code anywhere which could be used as a
| good test for Pythons speed (encompasing all of its language
| features) so that if anyone tinkered with the bytecode execution
| unit they could measure the speed improvement. It would be useful if
| it also tested correctness to ensure no mistakes?!

My xmlproc XML parser might be a good test of string processing at
least, and I have regression and speed testing harnesses for it.
However, it's already been optimized by hand, so it may not be the
best choice.

Anyway, if you want the harnesses, just let me know.

--Lars M.