Simon Willison’s Weblog

Dromaeo: JavaScript Performance Testing (via) This is one classy benchmark. Run it in as many browsers as you like (each run is saved to the server and assigned a run ID), then compare the results by appending ?id=[run1],[run2]... to the URL.

# 11th September 2008, 4:06 pm / benchmark, dromaeo, javascript, john-resig, performance

Some Notes on Tim Bray’s Wide Finder Benchmark. Fredrik Lundh demonstrates some Python ninja techniques for parsing log files using multiple cores (and eventually memory mapping).

# 7th October 2007, 1:06 am / benchmark, effbot, fredrik-lundh, mmap, multicore, python, tim-bray