Remove comment about improvement: pystone is about the same, and

the improvements seem to be difficult to quantify

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index a0959efbbe51c11cf19236bdfe96dcd6ab19407f..0038623a0af407eccaa059a03deaca2078f459f4 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -1723,9 +1723,6 @@ Optimizations
   free lists when garbage-collecting the highest generation of objects.
   This may return memory to the operating system sooner.
 
-The net result of the 2.6 optimizations is that Python 2.6 runs the pystone
-benchmark around XXX% faster than Python 2.5.
-
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 .. _new-26-interpreter: