[Python-Dev] Help requested with Python 2.7 performance regression

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 20:24:03 +0100
Louis Bouchard <louis.bouchard at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> Indeed, this is something that is in the history of the LP bug so here is the
> URL where those comparison can be found :
> 
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MyNBPVZlBeic1OLqVKe_bcPk2deO_pQs9trIfOFefM0/edit#gid=2034603487

Some more questions:
* what does "faster" or "slower" mean (that is, which one is faster)?
* is it possible to have actual performance differences in percent?
  being 2% slower is not the same as being 30% slower...

Regards

Antoine.