Simon Willison is a great guy, but he's not a Python core developer and his ad hoc benchmark is not what the CPython core team members are using. For the latter

Simon Willison is a great guy, but he's not a Python core developer and his ad hoc benchmark is not what the CPython core team members are using. For the latter, see https://github.com/faster-cpython/benchmarking-public https://github.com/faster-cpython/benchmarking-public