[Speed] Should we change what benchmarks we have?

[Yury Selivanov]

On 2016-02-11 6:24 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> 2016-02-12 0:16 GMT+01:00 Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com>:
>> Unless 21955 makes numpy code slower, I'm not sure why we're discussing
>> this.
> Stefan Krah wrote that it makes the decimal module 6% slower:
> https://bugs.python.org/issue21955#msg259571
>
> Again in another message, "big slowdown for _decimal":
> https://bugs.python.org/issue21955#msg259793
>
> Victor

Yes, we need a good benchmark for decimals or numpy.
Both use operator overloading extensively.  Then I guess
we can talk if there is an actual slowdown.

Yury