Well I redid my little experiment with my [color=#FF0000]48 python solutions[/color] and got this now:
Python 2.5 + psyco: [color=#FF0000]48 AC + 0 TLE[/color]
Python 2.6: [color=#FF0000]19 AC + 28 TLE[/color]
Python 2.6 + pysco: [color=#FF0000]28 AC + 20 TLE[/color]
This shows to me that in general python 2.6 has worse performance. Psyco helps a little bit, but the overall performance is still a problem. We are going to suffer (even more) to make python solutions ACceptable.
You can check the list of executions here: br.spoj.pl/status/diegocaminha/signedlist/1
- I wonder if the designers of python language care at all about performance