[Speed] slow benchmark

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:58:02 -0400
Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > The hexiom benchmark is very slow. Is there a reason it's included
> > there?
> >
> 
> Already been asked and answered:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/speed/2012-September/000209.html

I didn't realize when reading this discussion that hexiom2 was *that*
slow. I don't think a benchmark taking 100+ seconds to run *in fast
mode* has a place in the benchmark suite. PyPy can maintain their own
benchmarks in their source tree, like CPython does.

Regards

Antoine.


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