Python Speed

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> Py33
>>>>> timeit.repeat("{1:'abc需'}")
>> [0.2573893570572636, 0.24261832285651508, 0.24259548003601594]
>
> On my win system, I get a lower time for this:
> [0.16579443757208878, 0.1475787649924598, 0.14970205670637426]
>
>> Py323
>> timeit.repeat("{1:'abc需'}")
>> [0.11000708521282831, 0.0994753634273593, 0.09901023634051853]
>
> While I get the same time for 3.2.3.
> [0.11759353304428544, 0.09482448029000068, 0.09532802044164157]
>
> It seems that something about Jim's machine does not like 3.3.
> *nix will probably see even less of a difference. Times are in microseconds,
> so few programs will ever notice the difference.

Running the same tests in IDLE on my Windows XP laptop, I see similar
results to what jmf reports.  But from what Christian posted, it
sounds like this regression may have more to do with PEP 412 than PEP
393.