Tables: Workloads

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

Top-level Workloads

workload	sub-workload	description	...
Web		Workloads used in typical server-side web applications
	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
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

Alternative (top-level/app focus):

workload	sub-workload	description	examples	...	...
one-off
	quick script
	REPL
	instruction (edu)
	demo
Jupyter
tool (CLI)
	script
	app
	client (front-end only)
	library-as-script
tool (GUI)					e.g. via tkinter or pyqt
	self-contained
	front-end only
devops
	short-running tools
	long-running tools
automation
"web"
	static site
	dynamic site
	"function"
	service API
data science
	data processing
	scientific computing
	finance
	machine learning
games
	complete (e.g. via pygame)
	backend (e.g. eve)
...

• (The above is obviously incomplete and some workloads might be subdivided, combined, or moved around.)
• (There are also usage categories that aren't quite workloads: prototyping, adaptation (glue).)

Alternative (sub-community focus):

community	workload	description	examples	...	...
programming hobbyist
programmer
devops
web
education
data science
scientific computing
machine learning
finance
maker
embedded hardware
games
automation
enterprise
...

XXX Workloads can be sub-categorized by the resources they use:

resource	...
filesystem
network
database
SCM repo
library (Python)
library (non-Python)

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.