Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?

[Andrew Jaffe]

On 06/03/2016 14:41, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 10:34 pm, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>
>> Hi, I've been experimenting with a short test program under python 2.7
>> and python 3.4.2. It's a simple read from file, and locate a word therein.
>>
>> I get the (subjective) impression that python2  is slightly faster than
>> python3. Is that correct? Is there any documentation to support this?
>
> I believe that, overall, Python 3 is still slightly slower than Python 2,
> but it's a near thing. Have a look at the latest performance benchmarks:
>
> https://speed.python.org/comparison/
>
> Eyeballing the graph, I estimate that the latest 3.x version is probably
> about 10% slower overall, although different benchmarks show different
> speeds.
>

Dumb question, and this probably isn't the place for it, but the three 
Pythons being tested are:

  64-bit CPython on Li... latest in branch '2.7'
  64-bit CPython on Li... latest in branch '3.5'
  64-bit CPython on Li... latest

I understand that the first two are the released 2.7 and 3.5 versions; 
is the third the most recent 3.x build?

Andrew