How Fast is Python 3.15?

Re:How Fast is Python 3.15? by bjourne on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:34PM (#49986819)

My pet peeve are numbers with too many decimals. If you only run a benchmark three times and take the arithmetic mean you don't have five or more significant digits. At best, you have two. And for benchmarking the geometric mean is a far superior mean.

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Re:How Fast is Python 3.15? by jrk on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:45PM (#49986923)

For averaging multiple different benchmarks, the geometric mean makes sense. For removing measurement noise from a single benchmark, min or median is usually the right statistic.

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