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Measuring the performance of the RPC Kittens HTTP server was kinda fun.

I used siege and tested a few different workloads. The peak performance I saw was 6000 r/s, for a trivial function on Python 3.14. The same thing clocked at 4000r/s on Python 3.10.

(Both of which I consider acceptable for single-threaded Python code running on a 6yo laptop.)

I was surprised and impressed by the difference between Python 3.10 and 3.14. The #CPython folks have done some amazing work!

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@HerraBRE@floss.social · 2 days ago

Measuring the performance of the RPC Kittens HTTP server was kinda fun.

I used siege and tested a few different workloads. The peak performance I saw was 6000 r/s, for a trivial function on Python 3.14. The same thing clocked at 4000r/s on Python 3.10.

(Both of which I consider acceptable for single-threaded Python code running on a 6yo laptop.)

I was surprised and impressed by the difference between Python 3.10 and 3.14. The #CPython folks have done some amazing work!

SnoopJ

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io · 3 days ago

https://discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-rust-for-cpython/104906

SnoopJ

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io replied · 2 days ago

This discussion of a "pre-proposal" for #Rust in the #CPython core has been an interesting one to watch over the last 24 hours, although I'm sure there will be lots of chatter yet.

Based on feedback so far, it looks like the focus of the eventual proposal will be on optional extension modules. I think it's a good way to proceed. If such a proposal were accepted it would provide a lot of concrete experience that would be informative to the bigger ideas about integrating Rust in the core.

https://discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-rust-for-cpython/104906/117

#Python

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@HerraBRE@floss.social · 7 months ago

Yesterday, for reasons best left unstated, I invented a technique for combining #bash and #Python into a single file.

The motivation was to have something a bit more powerful than the #! to decide which installed Python to use.

The magic is in line two:

#!/bin/bash
""""true"
# bash sees this, python ignores it
if [ -e /path/to/file ]; then
exec python3 "$0" "$@"
else
echo "OMG, something is missing"
exit 1
fi
"""
# begin python fun!
from thing import python_stuff
python_stuff()

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@HerraBRE@floss.social replied · 7 months ago

@HerraBRE I have decided to call this technique "the shebonk".

Because it's link a shebang, only weird!

I've added shebonk support to my forked zipapp.py, will be using to build even more portable pagekite.py bundles than before!

I wonder if this hurts my chances of getting my enhanced #zipapp merged back into upstream #CPython? :-P

#python #bash #hacks