The The Computer Language Shootout has just published results for Python 2.5 and Psyco 1.5.2. Comparing the old (Python 2.4) Gentoo Pentium 4 results (now not visible anymore) with the new results, I have seen that all the tests with Python 2.5 are faster than the ones with Python 2.4 (some results can't be compared because N is changed):
Gentoo Pentium 4, Python 2.4.3 measurements: Program & Logs CPU Time Memory KB GZip N binary-trees 99.26 15,816 402 16 chameneos Timout 5.000.000 cheap-concurrency 23,13 5.252 160 15.000 fannkuch 66,38 2.200 395 10 fasta 81,62 9.884 861 2.500.000 k-nucleotide 15,52 15.580 459 250.000 mandelbrot 363,86 2.412 472 3.000 n-body Timout 20.000.000 nsieve 9,79 34.416 269 9 nsieve-bits 164,72 42.412 320 11 partial-sums 38,64 2.300 410 2.500.000 pidigits 9,22 2.388 391 2.500 recursive 701,64 14.360 344 11 regex-dna 6,21 24.160 326 500.000 reverse-complement 2,7 46.032 272 2.500.000 spectral-norm 696,76 2.456 266 2.500 startup 6,38 29 200 sum-file 8,08 2.364 61 8.000 Regarding Psyco, two tests only are worse (the sourcecode, CPU and SO are the same): Old (Python 2.4.3, older Psyco): nsieve 4.22 22,680 211 9 reverse-complement 1.66 49,336 330 2,500,000 New (Python 2.5, Psyco 1.5.2): nsieve 4.26 22,904 211 9 reverse-complement 1.75 52,056 330 2,500,000 Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
