Benchmarking is hard to do well. Benchmarking on modern machines is very hard (dynamic clocks, caching, more). Benchmarking on code that runs in less than a m

Benchmarking is hard to do well. Benchmarking on modern machines is very hard (dynamic clocks, caching, more). Benchmarking on code that runs in less than a milisecond is very very hard. If you care about this performance you probably should not use Python. I'll take better checked, more readable Python over faster Python any day.