Add information about pbs performance - #1192
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Figure for BENCHMARKS.md 
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| python-build-standalone provides high-performance CPython distributions designed for compatibility across a broad range of Linux distributions, macOS releases, and Windows versions. It's builds incorporate compiler optimizations such as profile-guided optimization (PGO), link-time optimization (LTO), and, where appropriate, BOLT post-link binary optimization. Together, these techniques improve runtime performance while preserving portability. |
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nit: I feel like this might be appropriate for a blog post, but when you're already in astral-sh/python-build-standalone/blob/main/BENCHMARKS.md this doesn't add too much value. At the very least it's out of place, sitting below the chart. I'd start immediately with the "The figure above" paragraph
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| The figure above compares CPython 3.14.6 performance across several distributions using pyperformance. Each violin represents the distribution of per-benchmark mean runtime ratios between an alternative CPython distribution and python-build-standalone on the same platform and architecture. Ratios greater than 1 indicate that python-build-standalone was faster; ratios less than 1 indicate that the alternative distribution was faster. |
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maybe smuggle a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_plot ? I wasn't familiar with this until I looked it up
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| From top to bottom, the distributions shown are: | ||
| * The Docker `python:3.14` image for x86-64, providing CPython 3.14.6. | ||
| * A conda-forge Python 3.14.6 environment for `linux-64`. | ||
| * The system Python 3.14.6 in a `fedora:44` x86-64 Docker container. | ||
| * The system Python 3.14.6 in a debian:forky x86-64 Docker container. | ||
| * CPython 3.14.6 from the Python.org macOS installer on an arm64 Mac. | ||
| * A conda-forge Python 3.14.6 environment for `osx-arm64`. | ||
| * CPython 3.14.6 installed through Homebrew on an arm64 Mac. | ||
| * CPython 3.14.6 from the Python.org Windows installer for x86-64. | ||
| * A conda-forge Python 3.14.6 environment for `win-64`. |
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should we include more precise versions that will allow people to reproduce the benchmark? e.g. the docker image hash, or the link to the python.org macos installer
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should we include the raw data too, not just the image?
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Add a document (
BENCHMARKS.md) which discusses the performance on python-build-standalone in pyperformance benchmarks compared to other CPython distributions.