Tables: Workloads

See the benchmarking page for a discussion about Python workloads and benchmarks.

Top-level Workloads

workload	category	...
Web	Workloads used in typical server-side web applications
Image rasterization	Generating images from a vector form
Cryptography	Calculating cryptographic hashes and ciphers
Commandline	Workloads import to cli apps, such as application startup
Numeric	Numeric workloads (in pure Python, without common numeric libraries)
Puzzles	Puzzles, often derived from standard cross-language benchmarks, often exercising graph-like data structures

Sub-workloads

Web workload

sub-workload	...
Template rendering	Rendering HTML using a template language
HTML parsing	Parsing HTML content
JSON handling	Time to serialize and deserialize JSON
Regular expressions	Common regular expression uses for web applications
Database	Common database workloads in web applications
HTTP server	Cost of serving HTTP requests

workload Y

sub-workload	...

Stdlib Applications

The Python stdlib includes a number of tools (applications) which can be matched, respectively, to a workload. We can use them as examples:

• json.tool - ...
• 2to3 - Migrates Python 2 to Python 3 source code. (Deprecated in Python 3.11, to be removed in 3.13)

pyperformance Benchmarks

(These "workload" benchmarks are all considered macro benchmarks.)

workload	benchmark	description
2to3	2to3	Runs the 2to3 tool over 9 files from the Django 1.1.4 source code
Template rendering	chameleon	Renders a large HTML table using the chameleon template library
	django_template	Renders a large HTML table using the django_template library
	genshi_template	Renders a large HTML template using the genshi library
	mako	Renders a large HTML table using the mako library
HTML parsing	html5lib	Time to parse an HTML file using html5lib
JSON handling	json_dumps	Time to dump JSON
	json_loads	Time to load JSON
Regular expressions	regex_v8	A benchmark derived from regular expressions used on popular webpages
Database	sqlalchemy_declarative
	sqlalchemy_imperative
	sqlite_synth
HTTP Server	tornado
Image rasterization	chaos	Generates an image from splines
	raytrace	Simple raytracer
Cryptography	crypto_pyaes	Calculate AES block cipher using the pyaes library
Commandline	hg_startup	Measure the time to get the output of Mercurial's hg help
	python_startup	Measure python startup time
	python_startup_nosite	Measure python startup time without importing the site module
Numeric	scimark_sor	Successive over-relaxation benchmark
	scimark_sparse_mat_mult	Sparse matrix multiplication benchmark
	scimark_monte_carlo	Benchmark on the Monte Carlo algorithm to compute the area of a disc
	scimark_lu	LU decomposition benchmark
	scimark_fft	FFT benchmark
	spectral_norm
	sympy_*
Puzzles	deltablue	An implementation of the deltablue constraint-solving algorithm
	fannkuch	A permutation flipping game
	go	AI playing Go board game, using Zobrist hashing approach
	hexiom	Solver of the Hexiom board game
	mdp	Battle with damages and topological sorting of nodes in a graph
	meteor_contest	Solver for Meteor Puzzle board
	nbody	nbody benchmark from Computer Language Benchmarks Game
	nqueens	Simple, brute-force N-queens solver
	richards

The dominant features in those benchmarks are enumerated on the features page.

Also see the per-benchmark tables.