Python 2.1 performance

[Toby Dickenson]

Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at digicool.com> wrote:

>I also see that 2.1 is slower than 2.0 and both
>are slower than 1.5.2.  Haven't taken the time to figure out why.

During development of 2.0, I observed a small performance drop if the
garbage collector was compiled in. This was measuring start-up time
for a large script, so I guess 'import' performance was dominant. I
forget the numbers now.... 10% ish sounds about right.

Toby Dickenson
tdickenson at geminidataloggers.com