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Re:Learn Python 3 the Hard Way by orf on Friday July 07, 2017 @06:30PM (#14722711)
It's actually comparing 2.7.12 (2016) with 3.6 (2016).

Not that the release date has much to do with the benchmark, mind you...

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Re:Learn Python 3 the Hard Way by kartD on Friday July 07, 2017 @06:35PM (#14722736)
Hardly matters since 2.7.xx are all maintenance releases and practically no features or performance improvements
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Re:Learn Python 3 the Hard Way by orf on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:00PM (#14722894)
Which is exactly why it's ok and not unfair to compare the performance improvements over time of Python 3.6 versus Python 2.7?
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Re:Learn Python 3 the Hard Way by joshuamorton on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:23PM (#14723017)
The point is that even at that time, Zed was advocating staying on py2 because py3 had no future, or wasn't turing complete, or whatever is complaint du jour was.
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