Parrot Benchmarking

Vasily Chekalkin bacek at bacek.com
Thu Nov 25 05:36:49 UTC 2010


Hello.

I just found https://github.com/perl6/bench-scripts. How hard it will
be to incorporate those scripts into benchmarking?

-- 
Bacek

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Jon Gentle <parrot at atrodo.org> wrote:
> There was some discussions last week about the speed of parrot and being
> able to benchmark it.  As it turns out, I had time for a quick and dirty
> project, so I built http://isparrotfastyet.com/ .  I whipped up a quick
> sqlite database and catalyst app, and thanks to dukeleto, I'm using
> Tool::Bench to actually generate the benchmarks.  I've posted the code onto
> github at https://github.com/atrodo/itfy and I went ahead and attempted to
> populate it with benchmarks from each release tag since 2.0.0.
> Obviously, it's still pretty young and it has a few flaws.  First of all,
> there is no way to submit benchmarks to it, and in fact, at this point, it's
> ran manually.  Second, the data points need some context information so it's
> obvious exactly what they represent.
> Perhaps most importantly, it only has 1 real benchmark.  The rakudo start
> time benchmark is broken since I don't have a good way to checkout a
> previous rakudo that matches the parrot checkout for a release.  It's not a
> problem when I do daily benchmarking, and I could do it manually for the
> previous releases, but I'd rather not.
> If anyone has any questions or suggestions, I'm all ears.  Even better, pull
> requests are welcomed.
> -Jon Gentle
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