Hi, Robin Becker <robin <at> reportlab.com> writes: > > For fairly sensible reasons we changed the internal default to use unicode > rather than bytes. After doing all that and making the tests compatible etc etc > I have a version which runs in both and passes all its tests. However, for > whatever reason the python 3.3 version runs slower > > 2.7 Ran 223 tests in 66.578s > > 3.3 Ran 223 tests in 75.703s
Running a test suite is a completely broken benchmarking methodology. You should isolate workloads you are interested in and write a benchmark simulating them. Regards Antoine. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
