Hi, I was somewhat surprised when I ran pystones with python-2.5.2 and with python-3.0
On my old/slow machine I get python-2.5.2 from test import pystone pystone.pystones() gives (2.73, 18315.018315018315) python-3.0 from test import pystone pystone.pystones() gives (4.2700000000000005, 11709.601873536298) That's a drop of 36% ! I know that processing unicode is inherently slower, but still I was surprised that it's so much slower. Is there any hope Python-3.0 will get faster or is the main potential for optimizations exhausted, already? That's not to start a flame war! I know computers get faster, we human beings don't (me, at least) -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
