[nas]

I get:

3.9: 2.78

3.14: 3.86

3.14t: 3.91

This is a silly benchmark though. Look at pyperformance if you want something that might represent real script/application performance. Generally 3.14t is about 0.9x the performance of the default build. That depends on a lot of things though.

[bgwalter]

Pyperformance is a bloated, over-engineered test suite that does not catch anything. Due to the bloat it is hard to see what is even measured.

This benchmark demonstrates that global variables are not needed to find severe regressions.