pybench (was:No destructor)

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:32:34AM +0200, Horst Gassner wrote:

> > Actually, there is a patch for a Python garbage collector:
> > http://www.enme.ucalgary.ca/~nascheme/python/gc.html

> On this site I found a link to pybench, which sounds interesting for me.
> Unfortunately the link does not work. Does anyone know the right link or
> is this site just down at the moment?

The pybench I have here (which is a couple of months old or so) lists
Marc-Andre Lemburg as the author. MAL has a homepage on starship.python.net:

http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/

I think you can find pybench there.

> What is pybench? I think that it must be something like profiler. Are
> there things which do pybench better?

Pybench is a *python* benchmark. It benchmarks your Python interpreter (and
thus also your machine.) It doesn't benchmark or profile your application.
If you want a profiler, look at the profile module. It has its own section
in the library reference, which you can find here:

http://www.python.org/doc/lib/profile.html

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Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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