Re: The Pie-thon benchmark

2004-06-30 Thread Graham Barr
On 24 Jun 2004, at 21:49, Piers Cawley wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: it's not exactly exciting watching two people hit return three times in front of a roomful of people. Although watching two people hit each other in the face with custard pies three times in front of a roomful of people may be a lot

Re: The Pie-thon benchmark

2004-06-26 Thread Piers Cawley
Ask Bjørn Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Dan Sugalski wrote: it's not exactly exciting watching two people hit return three times in front of a roomful of people. >>> >>> Although watching two people hit each other in the face with c

Re: The Pie-thon benchmark

2004-06-26 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan Sugalski wrote: it's not exactly exciting watching two people hit return three times in front of a roomful of people. Although watching two people hit each other in the face with custard pies three times in front of a roomful of people may be a lot more

The benchmarks: b6.py (was: The Pie-thon benchmark)

2004-06-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski wrote: 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. Yep that's it, you can omit the word "pretty", though. Worth taking a look at, as we may well enlist the aid of the li

Re: The Pie-thon benchmark

2004-06-24 Thread Piers Cawley
Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dan Sugalski wrote: >> it's not exactly exciting watching two people hit return three times >> in front of a roomful of people. > > Although watching two people hit each other in the face with custard > pies three times in front of a roomful of people m

Re: The Pie-thon benchmark

2004-06-24 Thread Andy Wardley
Dan Sugalski wrote: > it's not exactly exciting watching two people hit return three times > in front of a roomful of people. Although watching two people hit each other in the face with custard pies three times in front of a roomful of people may be a lot more fun. Progamming language benchmar

Re: The Pie-thon benchmark

2004-06-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
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

Re: The Pie-thon benchmark

2004-06-21 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
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 Regards, -- Gregor Dan Sugalski wrote: Since this is getting worked on now, I figured I'd post the benchmark U

The Pie-thon benchmark

2004-06-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
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