I really would like to see both parties calming down, admitting mistakes (not only those of technical nature) and reconcile. You are eminently respected in the Python community and usually great contributors and your reputation can only grow if you could bring yourself to do this.

Concerning the factual issue, what do you think of the following benchmark? Anything wrong with it?

def TestElementTree(ElementTree):
tree = ElementTree.parse(
'religion.2.00.xml/ot/ot.xml')
for text in (v.text for v in tree.findall("//v")
if v.text.find(u'begat') != -1):
dummy = text


def TestAmara(binderytools):
for text in (unicode(v) for v in
binderytools.pushbind(u'v',
source='religion.2.00.xml/ot/ot.xml')
if unicode(v).find(u'begat') != -1):
dummy = text


from timeit import Timer


print "cElementTree:",
t = Timer('TestElementTree(ElementTree2)',
'import cElementTree as ElementTree2;'
'from __main__ import TestElementTree')
print t.timeit(100)/100


print "ElementTree:",
t = Timer('TestElementTree(ElementTree)',
'from elementtree import ElementTree;'
'from __main__ import TestElementTree')
print t.timeit(20)/20


print "Amara:",
t = Timer('TestAmara(binderytools)',
'from amara import binderytools;'
'from __main__ import TestAmara')
print t.timeit(3)/3