[Speed] Should we change what benchmarks we have?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:50:05 -0500
Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> Right now, spectral_norm is 50% faster on python 2 (when compared to 3.5).

spectral_norm is really a horrid benchmark.

> Yes, spectral_norm is micro-benchmark, but still, there is a lot of 
> python code out there that does some calculation in pure Python not 
> involving numpy or pypy.

Can you clarify "a lot"?

Regards

Antoine.