Re: Understanding the Pystone measurement

2011-03-26 Thread Raymond Hettinger
I forgot to mention that PyStone is just a Python translation from C of the venerable Dhrystone benchmark. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone for a short write-up on the history, purposes, and limitations of the benchmark. Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Understanding the Pystone measurement

2011-03-26 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On Mar 24, 9:21 pm, "tleeuwenb...@gmail.com" wrote: > Hi there, > > Is there a good writeup of what the pystone measurement actually > means? I'm working on benchmarking of some Python code at work, and > I'm interested in how Pystone might be relevant to me. I've tried > googling, but I can't fin

Understanding the Pystone measurement

2011-03-24 Thread tleeuwenb...@gmail.com
Hi there, Is there a good writeup of what the pystone measurement actually means? I'm working on benchmarking of some Python code at work, and I'm interested in how Pystone might be relevant to me. I've tried googling, but I can't find any introductory / definitional descriptions of what this modu