[lxml-dev] build & performance issues with 2.0beta2

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Holger,

jholg at gmx.de wrote:
> Ran 855 tests in 37.860s
>  
> Compared to 2.0alpha (I rebuilt that also with gcc 3.4.4):
> 
> Ran 824 tests in 2.698s
> 
> So basically performance drops by factor >10 for me

Sorry, I had completely forgotten that I switched on garbage collection
between test runs somewhere during the alpha cycle. The test run you are
comparing to does not explicitly run GC after each test to catch refcounting
bugs. That's what makes the difference here, not lxml itself.

Stefan