Morten Hels added the comment:
It turns out I was wrong about microseconds. The output in
https://bugs.python.org/issue35884 does show microseconds, but the output is
before this commit
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9da3583e78603a81b1839e17a420079f734a75b0
that fixes a typo
New submission from Morten Hels :
It is not immediately obvious to me what the units are in the timing table
here: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html#demos-and-tools
Clicking through to https://bugs.python.org/issue35884 shows that the unit is
microseconds, but I think it would be
