Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> It's customary for even innocent changes in ceval to produce small
> changes in some benchmarks. It's only really important to consider the
> global average.

Yes, the float benchmark appears to be particularly sensitive. In the
3.3.0 release it also runs 8% slower than it does now (unpatched).

I'm trying to keep track of changes because in 2.7 the (float) benchmark runs
something like 25% faster than in 3.3.0.