On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > So, where and when is the pie-throwing going to happen, precisely? > > IIRC, its at OSCON, but last time i googled for it, I didn't see > mention of which OSCON session or BOF it would be at....
The plan, last I knew, was to run the benchmarks at some point in the conference and announce the results (and deliver the pie) at the Python lightning talk session. While there'll potentially be much bragging (amongst other things :) about the results, it's not exactly exciting watching two people hit return three times in front of a roomful of people. > Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Since this is getting worked on now, I figured I'd post the benchmark URL > > for anyone who might be interested: > > > > ftp://python.org/pub/python/parrotbench/parrotbench.tgz > > > > It's pretty evil, and there's a chunk of "let's exercise python's builtins > > just because" code in there. > > > > Worth taking a look at, as we may well enlist the aid of the list to get > > some of those built-in functions working. (Which will be cool, since it'll > > mean a push to get a chunk of extra, useful functionality in) > > > > Dan > > > > --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- > > Dan Sugalski even samurai > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even > > teddy bears get drunk > > > Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
