On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> Py33 >>>>> timeit.repeat("{1:'abc需'}") >> [0.2573893570572636, 0.24261832285651508, 0.24259548003601594] > > On my win system, I get a lower time for this: > [0.16579443757208878, 0.1475787649924598, 0.14970205670637426] > >> Py323 >> timeit.repeat("{1:'abc需'}") >> [0.11000708521282831, 0.0994753634273593, 0.09901023634051853] > > While I get the same time for 3.2.3. > [0.11759353304428544, 0.09482448029000068, 0.09532802044164157] > > It seems that something about Jim's machine does not like 3.3. > *nix will probably see even less of a difference. Times are in microseconds, > so few programs will ever notice the difference.
Running the same tests in IDLE on my Windows XP laptop, I see similar results to what jmf reports. But from what Christian posted, it sounds like this regression may have more to do with PEP 412 than PEP 393. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list