[Speed] merging PyPy and Python benchmark suite

[Stefan Behnel]

Brett Cannon, 23.07.2012 19:59:
> For my keynotes at PyCon Argentina and Brasil I'm going to be talking
> about Python 3.3 and trying to sell it to Python 2.7 users. That means
> selling the performance numbers of Python 3.3 as acceptable for Python
> 2.7 users. Since that means using the benchmark suite I might as well
> start work on merging https://bitbucket.org/pypy/benchmarks/ and
> http://hg.python.org/benchmarks so we can host the canonical
> benchmarks at hg.python.org like we have discussed previously (along
> with coming up with a way to run the benchmarks against Python 2.7 and
> 3.3 for comparison and making more tests work in Python 3).
> 
> So, to start, I want to remove the divergence of the Unladen
> benchmarks (after that we can look at adding in any tests that are
> unique to PyPy). Am I right in thinking that all forked tests that
> came from Unladen ended up in PyPy's own directory under the same name
> (e.g. bm_mako.py)?

AFAICT, the only difference is the "ai" benchmark, which is otherwise known
as "nqueens".

Stefan