Performance of Python 3

[Isaac Gouy]

On Mar 1, 8:10 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan... at behnel.de> wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
> > Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> writes:
> >> I'm not sure what you think the speed of Ruby has to do with Python.
>
> > In the real world, people care about the relative speed of programs.
>
> Fine, but theShootoutonAliothisn't a particularly pythonic one. It
> deals almost exclusively with computationally intensive tasks, i.e.
> programs where any decent Python developer would either import Psyco or
> speed up the code in Cython.

It deals exclusively with small programs in isolation as if they were
the bottleneck.


> As long as that gives you improvements of
> 100-1000 times almost for free, I wouldn't bother too much with changing
> the platform just because someone shows me benchmark results of some code
> that I absolutely don't need in my daily work.


What examples do you have of 1000x improvement?