According to this blog post, 3.2 performance now exceeds 2.6 and 2.7, using the same pystone benchmark that the 3.0 release notes refer to:
http://www.levigross.com/post/2340736877/pystone-benchmark-o...
Looks like we need another benchmark. Does anyone have the Python 2 code from the Shootout? It seems to have been removed so that you can no longer compare Python 3 to Python 2 directly.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...
I am positive that Python 3 could be a lot faster than Python 2. If people are interested in what's possible, they should follow the corresponding mailing list (python-dev).