[NeedForSpeed] Benchmarks, please

[Tim Peters]

[Fredrik]
>> pystone 20000 gives me (best of 5 runs):
>>
>> 2.4.3   45725
>> 2.5a2   42620
>> trunk   45851 (at revision 46448)

>  trunk   44497 (at revision 46464)
>
> anyone else seen a similar slowdown lately ?  (the 2.4.3 values are
> stable, so it's not my machine)

trunk at 46439 49341.2
trunk at 46465 48264.3

on my Windows box.  But, at the same time,

2.4.3 now                          48877.4
2.4.3 when the box was much cooler 49510

Hard to draw a useful conclusion ...