[Python-Dev] Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and gets a private version; and keywords become ordered

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:57:07 +0200
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Both Python is built without neither `--with-optimizations` or `make
> > profile-opt`.  
> 
> That's bad :-) For most reliable benchmarks, it's better to use
> LTO+PGO compilation.

That sounds irrelevant. LTO+PGO improves performance, it does
nothing for benchmarking per se. That said, it's probably more useful
to benchmark an optimized Python build than an unoptimized one...

Regards

Antoine.