On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Can we disable by default disabling the cyclic gc in timeit module? > Often posts on pypy-dev or on pypy bugs contain usage of timeit module > which might change the performance significantly. A good example is > json benchmarks - you would rather not disable cyclic GC when running > a web app, so encoding/decoding json in benchmark with the cyclic GC > disabled does not make sense. > > What do you think? No, it's disabled by default for a reason (to avoid irrelevant noise in microbenchmarks), and other cases don't trump those original use cases. A command line switch to leave it enabled would probably be reasonable, though. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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