Just for fun I ran the conversion of the 2.3 User Guide to the 2.4 format. In order to do that I used the several versions of Python that I have available since lyx2lyx only uses the standard library:
[jamatos@griffin ~]$ for v in 2 3.{6..12}; do echo -n $v; time python$v /usr/share/lyx-devel/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx -o /dev/null /usr/share/lyx/doc/UserGuide.lyx; done 2 real 0m1.487s user 0m1.449s sys 0m0.037s 3.6 real 0m0.294s user 0m0.273s sys 0m0.020s 3.7 real 0m0.262s user 0m0.236s sys 0m0.025s 3.8 real 0m0.209s user 0m0.193s sys 0m0.016s 3.9 real 0m0.220s user 0m0.202s sys 0m0.019s 3.10 real 0m0.239s user 0m0.221s sys 0m0.019s 3.11 real 0m0.204s user 0m0.179s sys 0m0.024s 3.12 real 0m0.179s user 0m0.165s sys 0m0.015s So as you can see Python 3.12 is 8.78 times faster than Python 2.7. Of course this is just for conversion, also running this several times the results change but the general picture is the same. PS: Yes, I am using bash. :-) Regards, -- José Abílio -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel