[Speed] People interested in reworking the benchmark suite in 2016?

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

count me in (even if I don't make it to pycon)

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> With the planned move to GitHub, there is an opportunity to try and rework
> the set of benchmarks -- and anything else -- in 2016 by starting a new
> benchmark repo from scratch. E.g., modern numeric benchmarks, long-running
> benchmarks that warm up JITs, using pip with pegged bugfix versions so we
> stop shipping library code with the benchmarks, etc.  We could also
> standardize results output -- e.g. should we just make everything run under
> codespeed? -- so that the benchmarks are easy to run locally for one-off
> results as well as continuous benchmarking for trend details with a common
> benchmark driver?
>
> Would people be interested and motivated enough in getting representatives
> from the various Python implementations together at PyCon and have a BoF to
> discuss what we want from a proper, unified, baseline benchmark suite and
> see if we can pull one together -- or at least start one -- in 2016?
>
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