REM: Remove benchmarks files.

The files are very basic, old benchmarks testing numpy against numeric
and numarray. The competitors are almost defunct and, while benchmarks
are awesome, we really need a more polished and complete framework that
runs against the current competition. I think the early results from
these benchmarks were posted, maybe even presented, and could be found
in a search.

Closes #3088 ;) So old a tuple parameter was used.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 42 deletions

diff --git a/benchmarks/benchmark.py b/benchmarks/benchmark.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 047379451..000000000
--- a/benchmarks/benchmark.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-from timeit import Timer
-
-class Benchmark(dict):
-    """Benchmark a feature in different modules."""
-
-    def __init__(self,modules,title='',runs=3,reps=1000):
-        self.module_test = dict((m,'') for m in modules)
-        self.runs = runs
-        self.reps = reps
-        self.title = title
-
-    def __setitem__(self,module,(test_str,setup_str)):
-        """Set the test code for modules."""
-        if module == 'all':
-            modules = self.module_test.keys()
-        else:
-            modules = [module]
-
-        for m in modules:
-            setup_str = 'import %s; import %s as np; ' % (m,m) \
-                        + setup_str
-            self.module_test[m] = Timer(test_str, setup_str)
-
-    def run(self):
-        """Run the benchmark on the different modules."""
-        module_column_len = max(len(mod) for mod in self.module_test)
-
-        if self.title:
-            print self.title
-        print 'Doing %d runs, each with %d reps.' % (self.runs,self.reps)
-        print '-'*79
-
-        for mod in sorted(self.module_test):
-            modname = mod.ljust(module_column_len)
-            try:
-                print "%s: %s" % (modname, \
-                    self.module_test[mod].repeat(self.runs,self.reps))
-            except Exception as e:
-                print "%s: Failed to benchmark (%s)." % (modname,e)
-
-        print '-'*79
-        print