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[RELEASED] Python 3.1 final

Posted Jun 29, 2009 21:22 UTC (Mon) by quartz (guest, #37351)
Parent article: [RELEASED] Python 3.1 final

So... any performance comparisons? Sounds like it was a big change.

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Posted Jun 30, 2009 9:44 UTC (Tue) by zuki (subscriber, #41808) [Link]

From the linked what's new document:
"In Python 3.1, the I/O library has been entirely rewritten in C and is 2 to 20 times faster depending on the task at hand."

There also are some interesting improvements in the dispatch loop - 20% speedup in a micro benchmark or so.