GTSystem Tech Blog

In my previous post (six months ago) I claim about the bad performance of Python 3.0. The first py3k version contained a new I/O library written totally in python that was the main cause of such problems.
Now Python 3.1 present a totally new I/O Library rewritten in c for maximum performance. As promised, I re-execute all [...]

Python 3.0 (aka Python 3000) was released about a week ago.
In the what’s new the python team claim:
The net result of the 3.0 generalizations is that Python 3.0 runs the pystone benchmark around 10% slower than Python 2.5. Most likely the biggest cause is the removal of special-casing for small integers. There’s room for improvement, [...]