
Jan. 27, 2001
6:58 p.m.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:28:02 +0100, Andreas Jung <andreas@andreas-jung.com> wrote:
Is there a reason why 2.1 runs significantly slower ? Both Python versions were compiled with -g -O2 only.
[CC'ing to python-dev] Confirmed: [amk@mira Python-2.0]$ ./python Lib/test/pystone.py Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 3.14 This machine benchmarks at 3184.71 pystones/second [amk@mira Python-2.0]$ python2.1 Lib/test/pystone.py Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 3.81 This machine benchmarks at 2624.67 pystones/second The ceval.c changes seem a likely candidate to have caused this. Anyone want to run Marc-Andre's microbenchmarks and see how the numbers have changed? --amk