A more pythonic Richards benchmark?

The richard's benchmark included with pyperformance seems to be a C -> C++ -> Java -> Python port. It makes heavy use of object oriented programming and doesn't look anything like the original C code.

I've been playing with the python2 version distributed from their website. I ported it to python3. It looks more like the C version, which has some good things and a few bad things:

+ Covers non-OO programming use case
- Overloads variables as in Union[int, Type1, Type2]

I'm in the process of improving it to Optional[Type1] and Optional[Type2]

My goal is to explore a dialect of statically typed python using modern pythonic constructs:

• dataclasses
• enums
• python3 type annotations
• static transpilation via py2many

The code is here: https://github.com/adsharma/richards-benchmark. Let me know if this sounds interesting and if you'd like to update the variant in the repo at some point in the future. I hear some of the faster cpython work is using these benchmarks.

Start by reading pyperformance/benchmarks/bm_richards.py and comparing it with the Python 3 variant in adsharma/richards-benchmark. Review the proposed dataclasses, enums, type annotations, and py2many-based transpilation approach. The issue does not define an acceptance criterion; completion would require maintainer agreement on whether and how this variant should be updated in pyperformance.