Benchmarks

The benchmarks are divided into two categories: benchmarks and microbenchmarks. All non-microbenchmarks are documented below.

Microbenchmarks are not reliable and must be used with care. They cannot be used to estimate real-world performance.

richards

The classic Python Richards benchmark.

Adapted to mypyc from https://github.com/python/pyperformance.

Based on a Java version.

Based on original version written in BCPL by Dr Martin Richards in 1981 at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, England and a C++ version derived from a Smalltalk version written by L Peter Deutsch.

deltablue

DeltaBlue benchmark

Adapted to mypyc from https://github.com/python/pyperformance.

Ported for the PyPy project. Contributed by Daniel Lindsley

This implementation of the DeltaBlue benchmark was directly ported from the V8's source code, which was in turn derived from the Smalltalk implementation by John Maloney and Mario Wolczko. The original Javascript implementation was licensed under the GPL.

It's been updated in places to be more idiomatic to Python (for loops over collections, a couple magic methods, OrderedCollection being a list & things altering those collections changed to the builtin methods) but largely retains the layout & logic from the original. (Ugh.)