add version of Richards that uses super() #271
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Currently, none of the benchmarks in pyperformance exercise
super()
method calls significantly. But real-world modern object-oriented Python code often does (one source: Instagram server codebase uses lots ofsuper()
method calls, some in hot paths.)To correct this gap in visibility, this PR adds a copy of the Richards benchmark that is modified to use
super()
calls. Existing super-method calls that were done by naming the base class directly (Task.__init__(self, ...)
) are modified to usesuper()
, and the already-polymorphicTask.fn
method is modified slightly such that overrides now call up to the base method usingsuper()
.If we accept that Richards is a roughly reasonable representation of some object-oriented Python code, I think this is a similarly reasonable representation of the real-world use of
super()
in such code.Thanks to @pablogsal for this suggestion.