Python Performance
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at lemburg.com
Thu Jul 29 07:35:30 EDT 1999
Markus Stenberg wrote:
>
> "Nick Trout" <nick@#spam_me_not#videosystem.co.uk> writes:
> > >> Thus I've had great deal of interest in getting the speed up; however,
> > >> speeding up dynamic interpreted languages is nontrivial, especially
> > >> languages as dynamic as Python.
> > 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?!
>
> There is PyStone (comes along with distribution) and PyBench (which I
> haven't tried). I myself use a performance testing framework and ton of
> small examples to judge whether things speed up or not.
FYI, pybench can be downloaded from:
http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/pybench-0.6.zip
There's currently no web-page for it... too busy, sorry. Usage should
be fairly obvious though and it's extendable too.
--
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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