[Python-Dev] Performance compares

[Michael Hudson]

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

> Sure are... but I'm not so much interested in the absolute numbers
> -- it's the hot-spots which showed up that scare me: e.g. dictionary
> creation seems to have suffered along the way for some reason,
> functions calls are even slower now than they were previously and
> other important tasks such a instance creation take a similar hit
> (probably as a result of the other two).

Have you tried fiddling with gc parameters?  If the GC does a multi
generation trawl through the heap in the middle of some test, that
might skew the numbers in unexpected ways.

Or not, of course.

Cheers,
M.

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