[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew Dalke wrote: >> This is with Python 2.3; the stock one provided by Apple >> for my Mac. > > Ahh that is the difference. I'm running Python 2.4. I've checked my > benchmarks on a friends machine, also in Python 2.4, and received the > same results as my machine. > >> I expected the numbers to be like this because the marshal >> code is used to make and read the .pyc files and is supposed >> to be pretty fast. > > It would appear that the new version 1 format introduced in Python 2.4 > is much slower than version 0, when using the dumps function.
Not so for me. My benchmarks suggest no change between 2.3 and 2.4. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list