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Fri Jan 2 12:57:43 EST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041590.html

> Python 2.3.2 (#49)  pystone test on my Win2k SP4 machine.
> 
> Note this is a  1.6 ghz Pentium M (Centrino)
> 
> Pystone(1.1) time for 50000 passes = 1.3762
> This machine benchmarks at 36331.9 pystones/second
> 
> Faster than Anthony's 3Ghz P4.
> 
> I believe this processor has a very large on-board cache.. I'm not sure how large. It's a 
> Dell Lattitude D800.
> 
> My point being, I think pystone performance is greatly effected by
> CPU cache, more so than CPU clock speed.

My goal with this benchmark was not to compare CPUs but to see whether
the pystone count times the time for the parrotbench is ~constant, and
if it's not, what influences there are on the product.

Can you report the parrotbench times?

ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/parrotbench/parrotbench.tgz

I'm only interested in the user time.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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Are we collecting benchmark results across machines