[stdlib-sig] Benchmark suggestion

[Raymond Hettinger]

Instead of benchmarking the kind of things we prefer to do in C,
how about something like timing the sphinx build for the rst docs?
This is something that represents a real and typical use of Python.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Antoine Pitrou" <solipsis at pitrou.net>
To: "Michael Foord" <michael at voidspace.org.uk>
Cc: "Collin Winter" <collinw at gmail.com>; "Michael Foord" <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>; "stdlib-sig" <stdlib-sig at python.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 5:52 PM
Subject: [stdlib-sig] Benchmark suggestion


> hi,
> 
> A possible benchmark addition could be json parsing/unparsing using the
> pure Python parts of the simplejson library.
> 
> Other things which would be interesting to measure:
> - a production-grade HTTP implementation (some parts of Twisted?
> something else?)
> - something involving Unicode
> 
> cheers
> 
> Antoine.
> 
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