Benchmark stdlib compression code
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Description
At PyConUS, I was chatting with @gpshead about adding compression benchmarks. While a lot of the "heavy lifting" of compression happens in the libraries CPython binds (zlib, liblzma, etc.), the handling of output buffers in CPython has a significant impact in performance, and is something we don't have a lot of visibility into the performance of.
One of the better known cross-algorithm compression benchmarks I'm aware of is lzbench, which tests compression performance of the Silesia compression corpus across many algorithms. I figure running compression benchmarks at varied settings on Silesia would provide a good starting point for benchmarking the output buffer and other binding code.
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No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reviewing pyperformance's existing benchmark structure, then compare lzbench's Silesia methodology and the zlib/liblzma bindings to define varied settings and output-buffer measurements. Done means reproducible compression benchmarks that expose the CPython-side performance described in the issue.
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- python
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- performance
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