April 30, 1999
4:13 a.m.
Ian did benchmarks and found that the new code was consistently slower, by 3-6%. Perhaps for Python 1.6 this will be acceptable (the "Python IS slow" thread notwithstanding :-); or perhaps someone can
As long as we get someone working on a consistent 3-6% speedup in other areas this wont be a problem :-) I will attach it to my long list - but Im going to put all my efforts here into Unicode first, and probably the threading stuff second :-) Mark.