A more pythonic Richards benchmark? about pyperformance

[adsharma]

Using the @Sealed decorator derived from the adt library makes it around 4-5x slower than the Java derived version. Likely because of all the isinstance() checks inside the libary. Need to benchmark it again when python supports something similar natively.

My goal is to transpile this version of the library to rust and see how well the transpiled + optimized code performs.

[markshannon]

What is wrong with the richard's benchmark being OO? OO programming is widely used.
Do you think that OO programming is over represented in the benchmark suite as a whole?

[adsharma]

Certainly OO programming is widely used and should be proportionately represented. I feel the following are underrepresented:

• Use of dataclasses
• Generalized Algebraic data types, functional programming techniques. Usage is going up because of the mindshare rust has garnered in the last few years.
• Aspect oriented programming using python decorators (The only ones I see are staticmethod/classmethod and one instance of @coroutine)
• async/await