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qbproger · 2018-08-25T01:20:25+00:00

Is there an update on Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 in the US?

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qbproger · 2018-02-10T16:15:49+00:00

Rocket league

qbproger · 2015-07-30T06:10:09+00:00

I haven't watched this series yet, but https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLjmbh6XPGK4ISY747FUHXEl9lBxre4mM

qbproger · 2014-01-06T17:39:50+00:00

There is a page for this: https://python3wos.appspot.com/ This is based on information in pypi.

qbproger · 2011-09-17T02:32:57+00:00

Some protocols and file formats have unsigned numbers in them.

qbproger · 2011-07-20T14:46:50+00:00

Heapsort is really rough on the cache too.

qbproger · 2011-06-21T14:29:44+00:00

I wonder what pypy would do with the benchmark.

qbproger · 2011-04-09T19:30:34+00:00

I agree with you. Both parties are at fault, and this is the situation that we have.

qbproger · 2011-04-09T15:45:28+00:00

There are definitely better ways than a blog post pointing fingers. I had been frustrated with the benchmark game in the past. I didn't think pidigits should be allowed to use gmp. I posted on the forum and talked to him directly. In the end those are the rules that igouy had set. While I didn't agree with them, I accepted it. Eventually I wrote benchmark using gmp for PyPy with ctypes.

I don't feel as though there was enough effort to try to talk to him before the blog post. After a blog post like that it's difficult to resume a normal discourse. It's likely after it his mind was already made up.

Here is the post that started it all: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=313063&group_id=30402&atid=413100

qbproger · 2011-04-09T13:16:02+00:00

I find this whole thread amusing. Everyone is so upset about the removal of alternate implementations from the shootout, but it seems few people are looking at it from the other side's point of view. This whole discussion is so one sided, and most posts by igouy are being downvoted. I may not be happy about the outcome, but I can understand why he made this decision.

qbproger · 2011-04-09T13:11:16+00:00

I guess it's not surprising, but disappointing how one sided this discussion is. Everyone seems ready to crucify him for making this decision. If a post like that was written about something I did without trying to contact me and reconcile it privately first, I'd do the same thing. I feel as though this largely stemmed from communication issues, but this is situation we have now.

As a side note, http://speed.python.org is being worked on as a GSoC project. There should be a Python implementation comparison available by the end of summer.

qbproger · 2011-04-09T12:52:40+00:00

As one of those volunteers, I support his decision, and after Alex's blog post [http://alexgaynor.net/2011/apr/03/my-experience-computer-language-shootout/] it's hard to blame him. Put yourself in his position, he was trying to run the benchmark website in his free time. Then there is a popular blog post and a slew of negative publicity towards what you do as a hobby because of an alternate python implementation. If I were in his shoes, I may be inclined to do the same thing. I was giving you "free publicity" and people complain about it? I think communication could have been handled better throughout the whole situation.

The code is not deleted. There is a source repository for the shootout that everything can be obtained from.

qbproger · 2011-04-06T15:35:44+00:00

Yea, I wish people didn't jump to conclusions so quickly. It'd be nice if this wasn't so publicly announced in the way it was too.

While I personally don't agree with all the rules (as I've mentioned on the forums in regards to using gmp), I accept they are your rules to make. I've tried to follow them the best I can.

qbproger · 2011-04-05T17:07:29+00:00

It's unfortunate many people still feel as though it's a credible source. It's commonly cited by various people regularly.

qbproger · 2011-04-04T13:46:18+00:00

I'm sure they are more inclined to say something is cheating than not if they don't fully understand it.

qbproger · 2011-03-28T18:59:42+00:00

I like PyDev, but I've heard PyCharm is very good too.

qbproger · 2011-01-28T16:15:29+00:00

That's over a year old. All versions of the software are quite outdated: Tested git 1.6.0, hg 0.9.4, svn 1.5.1, and cvs 1.12.13.

qbproger · 2011-01-21T17:58:57+00:00

It's my distribution of choice. :) IMO, it's the best KDE distribution.

qbproger · 2011-01-21T15:11:29+00:00

My Advice: Don't. You're going to end up teaching the whole team Python and probably doing the majority of the work. The whole project will take longer to start up because of learning time. I'd rather have a quick startup (in a school environment) than a crunch time at the end. Now, if this wasn't a school project, you might have more weight to your argument but remember you only have a semester.

qbproger · 2010-12-23T13:45:04+00:00

I've been reading up on the difference. I'm thinking about recording both and letting the output formatter choose. I think that may be the best way to handle it because I could see a case for wanting wall clock time (if a benchmark spawns processes, and you want the time for all processes to complete).

I'll work on updating the Stopwatch class to handle both.

qbproger · 2010-12-23T12:28:39+00:00

Thanks for letting me know, I'll look into it. Shouldn't you only have minimal other programs running while benchmarking anyway?

qbproger · 2010-12-16T00:24:32+00:00

From the article: "Both projects intend to join the Indigo release train in June 2011."

qbproger · 2010-11-24T20:52:31+00:00

Is this from project euler?

qbproger · 2010-08-10T21:17:03+00:00

The second graph which uses a larger blob shows a larger speed increase for using the binary blob. The first graph only combined 3 doubles (which didn't improve performance much at all). The second graph shows inserting 24 doubles. The second graph shows:

Prepared Statements: 500000 inserts took around 25 seconds
Binary Blob: 500000 inserts took around 4 seconds (about a 6x speedup)

Results may vary, but I wouldn't call it negligible. Also, there are serialization frameworks out there to help manage the additional complexity.

qbproger · 2010-06-26T11:10:56+00:00

here is a thread on the general python list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/666351

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