Python 2.1 slower than 2.0

[Emile van Sebille]

I have a similar configuration but only measure an average
drop from ~3380 to ~3260 over successive runs.

My win2k box, OTOH, using 2.0 on successive runs ranges from
~5600 to ~4000, so I'm not even going to try a comparison
there.

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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"Andreas Jung" <andreas at andreas-jung.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.980616572.26954.python-list at python.org...
> pystone.py with Python 2.0: ~3600 Pystones/sec
>                 Python 2.1: ~3000 Pystones/sec
>
> Env. Linux i386, AMD-K2 300 MHz
>
> Is there a reason why 2.1 runs significantly slower ?
> Both Python versions were compiled with -g -O2 only.
>
> Andreas
>
>