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On 8/18/2012 4:09 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:

> print(timeit("c in a", "c  =3D '=E2=80=A6'; a =3D 'a'*1000+c"))
> # .6 in 3.2.3, 1.2 in 3.3.0
>
> This does not make sense to me and I will ask about it.

I did ask on pydef list and paraphrased responses include:
1. 'My system gives opposite ratios.'
2. 'With a default of 1000000 repetitions in a loop, the reported times=20
are microseconds per operation and thus not practically significant.'
3. 'There is a stringbench.py with a large number of such micro benchmark=
s.'

I believe there are also whole-application benchmarks that try to mimic=20
real-world mixtures of operations.

People making improvements must consider performance on multiple systems =

and multiple benchmarks. If someone wants to work on search speed, they=20
cannot just optimize that one operation on one system.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy