From bae8f377d30ae352d82aa93cab4ca137ede7b930 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:55:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fill in the benchmark figures, bogus or not; add a disclaimer --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex index b61ab478a4..83db0c4ba0 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex @@ -1079,7 +1079,6 @@ you want to efficiently glue a large number of strings together. \end{itemize} -% XXX fill in these figures % pystone is almost useless for comparing different versions of Python; % instead, it excels at predicting relative Python performance on % different machines. @@ -1089,8 +1088,10 @@ you want to efficiently glue a large number of strings together. % and 2.4. The net result of the 2.4 optimizations is that Python 2.4 runs the -pystone benchmark around XX\% faster than Python 2.3 and YY\% faster -than Python 2.2. +pystone benchmark around 5\% faster than Python 2.3 and 35\% faster +than Python 2.2. (pystone is not a particularly good benchmark, but +it's the most commonly used measurement of Python's performance. Your +own applications may show greater or smaller benefits from Python~2.4.) %====================================================================== -- 2.40.0