Hello, Out of curiosity, I timed running the test suite ("./python -m test.regrtest") in non-debug mode, in both the release30-maint and py3k branches:
* release30-maint got: 302 tests OK. [...] 165.79user 26.03system 5:01.75elapsed 63%CPU * py3k got: 304 tests OK. [...] 113.33user 28.93system 4:06.79elapsed 57%CPU So, 3.1 is 30% faster in user CPU time, even though it probably has more tests (because of io-c, ordereddict and importlib). This is on a 64-bit Linux AMD system, and I got similar results on a 64-bit Linux Core2 system. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com