On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 10:34 pm, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, I've been experimenting with a short test program under python 2.7 > and python 3.4.2. It's a simple read from file, and locate a word therein. > > I get the (subjective) impression that python2 is slightly faster than > python3. Is that correct? Is there any documentation to support this?
I believe that, overall, Python 3 is still slightly slower than Python 2, but it's a near thing. Have a look at the latest performance benchmarks: https://speed.python.org/comparison/ Eyeballing the graph, I estimate that the latest 3.x version is probably about 10% slower overall, although different benchmarks show different speeds. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
