Victor Stinner

AppVeyor spotted a dangling thread: ``` 0:03:19 [286/416/2] test_socketserver failed (env changed) test_forking_handled (test.test_socketserver.ErrorHandlerTest) ... skipped 'requires forking' test_forking_not_handled (test.test_socketserver.ErrorHandlerTest) ... skipped 'requires forking' test_sync_handled (test.test_socketserver.ErrorHandlerTest) ... ok test_sync_not_handled (test.test_socketserver.ErrorHandlerTest)...

I removed the " needs backport to 3.6" label, the 3.6 branch no longer accept bugfixes (only security fixes are accepted): https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches

Sorry, but I don't know this ``libpython3.so`` file nor its purpose. When Python is built with ``./configure --enable-shared``, the ``python`` program is a very tiny program linked to libpython just...

PEP 384: > On Windows, applications shall link with python3.dll; an import library python3.lib will be available. This DLL will redirect all of its API functions through /export linker options...

Does it belong to pyperformance which is supposed to be a set of "macro benchmarks"? IMO it's to have benchmarks outside pyperformance. @ericsnowcurrently wants to add the ability to plug...

> C'mon, we even have unpacking tests: Maybe these tests don't belong to pyperformance :-( > I would say yes: we have things that are quite small in what they...

perf 1.2 adds a new "warmup calibration" feature, but it seems unstable. I will probably try to compute *manually* the number of required warmups on PyPy 5.7 on the speed-python...

Something should be done, I don't know what.

I'm unable to write such benchmark. Do you want to write such benchmark?

I should be possible to upload without compiling.