STINNER Victor added the comment: Benchmarks with Python compiled by gcc -O3 (without PGO).
haypo@smithers$ ./python -m perf timeit 'len("abc")' --duplicate=1000 --compare-to=../default-ref/python Median +- std dev: [ref] 40.4 ns +- 0.8 ns -> [likely] 40.8 ns +- 2.1 ns: 1.01x slower (+1%) haypo@smithers$ ./python -m perf timeit 'sum(())' --duplicate=1000 --compare-to=../default-ref/python -p3 Median +- std dev: [ref] 86.4 ns +- 2.8 ns -> [likely] 86.3 ns +- 0.3 ns: 1.00x faster (-0%) Not significant! haypo@smithers$ ./python -m perf timeit -s 's=list("abc")' 'sorted(s)' --duplicate=100 --compare-to=../default-ref/python -p3 Median +- std dev: [ref] 224 ns +- 3 ns -> [likely] 222 ns +- 1 ns: 1.01x faster (-1%) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29461> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com