Microsoft's Dynamic Languages Runtime (DLR)

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On 3 May 2007 12:13:49 GMT, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>sturlamolden <sturlamolden at yahoo.no> wrote:
>
>> I am curious to know how it performs in comparison to CPython and an
>> efficient compiled Lisp like CMUCL. Speed is a major problem with
>> CPython but not with .NET or CMUCL, so it will be interesting to see
>> how the DLR performs in comparison. It would be great to finally see a
>> Python that runs on steroids, but knowing M$ bloatware my expectations
>> are not too high.
>
>The video of Jim Hugunin's talk from MIX has a slide showing how many
>Pystones you get on some different versions of Python. Of course that is
>just one benchmark and not terribly relevant to any real applications, but
>if you do get a similar speedup in real code 'Python that runs on
>steroids' won't be far from the truth.
>
>The claimed figures were 50,000 Pystones for CPython 2.5, and 101,000 for
>the latest IronPython. (He didn't mention it, but I believe Psyco will
>outdo both of these.)

fwiw, my desktop happens to do 50,000 pystones with cpython 2.4 and 294,000
pystones with cpython 2.4 and psyco.full()

Jean-Paul