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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex index 5727334..7b4238a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex @@ -1085,6 +1085,14 @@ you want to efficiently glue a large number of strings together. \end{itemize} % XXX fill in these figures +% pystone is almost useless for comparing different versions of Python; +% instead, it excels at predicting relative Python performance on +% different machines. +% So, this section would be more informative if it used other tools +% such as pybench and parrotbench. For a more application oriented +% benchmark, try comparing the timings of test_decimal.py under 2.3 +% and 2.4. + The net result of the 2.4 optimizations is that Python 2.4 runs the pystone benchmark around XX\% faster than Python 2.3 and YY\% faster than Python 2.2. |