[Python-Dev] Silly little benchmark

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> Okay, so here are some hopefully more comparable numbers.  I cvs up'd
    >> both Python 1.6 (release16 tag) and Python 2.1 (release21-maint tag)
    >> directories,

    Thomas> Wrong tag; you're testing the 2.1.1 branch, not the 2.1
    Thomas> release. 2.1.1 contains at least one small performance
    Thomas> optimization of which the impact has not been determined :)

I thought the whole idea of the dot dot releases was that they were supposed
to just be bug fixes. 

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