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Python 3.11

The need for speed.. Python 3.11 is out and it's fast!

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Rune Hansén Steinnes
·Jul 13, 2022·

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I let the benchmark churn away while reading mail and browsing the web so it might not have been optimal conditions.

+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| Geometric mean          | (ref)   | 1.41x faster          |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
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.:cccccccccccccccccccccc:;,..            GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630 
  '::cccccccccccccc::;,.                 Memory: 5810MiB / 15833MiB

Pyperformance run in podman containers (thanks to towardsdatascience.com/python-is-about-to-b..)

$ podman run -t -d python:3.11
$ podman exec -it pedantic_bhaskara /bin/bash
$ python -m pip install pyperformance
$ pyperformance run -o py311.json

... and the same for python 3.10

The result:

+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| Benchmark               | py310   | py311-prime           |
+=========================+=========+=======================+
| 2to3                    | 365 ms  | 279 ms: 1.31x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| chameleon               | 9.92 ms | 6.99 ms: 1.42x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| chaos                   | 119 ms  | 71.6 ms: 1.66x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| crypto_pyaes            | 137 ms  | 76.8 ms: 1.78x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| deltablue               | 8.79 ms | 4.00 ms: 2.20x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| django_template         | 56.2 ms | 35.4 ms: 1.59x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| dulwich_log             | 110 ms  | 84.7 ms: 1.30x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| fannkuch                | 539 ms  | 407 ms: 1.32x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| float                   | 121 ms  | 83.1 ms: 1.45x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| genshi_text             | 31.4 ms | 22.9 ms: 1.37x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| genshi_xml              | 71.3 ms | 55.4 ms: 1.29x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| go                      | 246 ms  | 143 ms: 1.72x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| hexiom                  | 9.72 ms | 7.38 ms: 1.32x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| html5lib                | 96.9 ms | 68.5 ms: 1.42x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| json_dumps              | 16.1 ms | 13.0 ms: 1.24x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| json_loads              | 29.8 us | 25.7 us: 1.16x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| logging_format          | 10.6 us | 7.59 us: 1.40x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| logging_silent          | 177 ns  | 103 ns: 1.72x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| logging_simple          | 9.58 us | 6.87 us: 1.39x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| mako                    | 17.2 ms | 11.8 ms: 1.46x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| meteor_contest          | 120 ms  | 109 ms: 1.10x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| nbody                   | 139 ms  | 98.5 ms: 1.41x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| nqueens                 | 110 ms  | 90.3 ms: 1.22x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| pathlib                 | 27.6 ms | 25.7 ms: 1.08x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| pickle                  | 11.3 us | 10.7 us: 1.06x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| pickle_dict             | 31.1 us | 30.5 us: 1.02x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| pickle_list             | 4.77 us | 4.01 us: 1.19x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| pickle_pure_python      | 474 us  | 315 us: 1.50x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| pidigits                | 202 ms  | 196 ms: 1.03x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| pyflate                 | 703 ms  | 444 ms: 1.58x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| python_startup          | 12.5 ms | 11.2 ms: 1.12x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| python_startup_no_site  | 8.20 ms | 8.44 ms: 1.03x slower |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| raytrace                | 607 ms  | 306 ms: 1.99x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| regex_compile           | 229 ms  | 142 ms: 1.61x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| regex_dna               | 262 ms  | 199 ms: 1.32x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| regex_effbot            | 3.89 ms | 3.35 ms: 1.16x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| regex_v8                | 29.9 ms | 22.8 ms: 1.31x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| richards                | 89.8 ms | 46.3 ms: 1.94x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| scimark_fft             | 483 ms  | 315 ms: 1.53x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| scimark_lu              | 195 ms  | 117 ms: 1.67x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| scimark_monte_carlo     | 124 ms  | 67.1 ms: 1.85x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| scimark_sor             | 238 ms  | 120 ms: 1.99x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| scimark_sparse_mat_mult | 6.27 ms | 4.66 ms: 1.35x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| spectral_norm           | 177 ms  | 102 ms: 1.73x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| sqlalchemy_declarative  | 229 ms  | 147 ms: 1.56x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| sqlalchemy_imperative   | 34.1 ms | 21.0 ms: 1.63x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| sqlite_synth            | 3.80 us | 2.61 us: 1.45x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| sympy_expand            | 721 ms  | 503 ms: 1.43x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| sympy_integrate         | 32.0 ms | 22.4 ms: 1.43x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| sympy_sum               | 256 ms  | 187 ms: 1.37x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| sympy_str               | 429 ms  | 311 ms: 1.38x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| telco                   | 7.69 ms | 6.60 ms: 1.16x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| tornado_http            | 233 ms  | 156 ms: 1.49x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| unpack_sequence         | 64.5 ns | 42.8 ns: 1.51x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| unpickle                | 16.5 us | 14.2 us: 1.16x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| unpickle_list           | 5.83 us | 5.07 us: 1.15x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| unpickle_pure_python    | 388 us  | 236 us: 1.64x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| xml_etree_parse         | 219 ms  | 164 ms: 1.33x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| xml_etree_iterparse     | 152 ms  | 111 ms: 1.37x faster  |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| xml_etree_generate      | 120 ms  | 85.1 ms: 1.41x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| xml_etree_process       | 95.7 ms | 59.3 ms: 1.61x faster |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+
| Geometric mean          | (ref)   | 1.41x faster          |
+-------------------------+---------+-----------------------+

Impressive results.

 
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