diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
index ccd732c2a76..88a8a12db70 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
@@ -297,8 +297,9 @@ Optimizations
 * Detailed changes are listed here.
 
 The net result of the 3.0 generalizations is that Python 3.0 runs the
-pystone benchmark around 25% slower than Python 2.5.  There's room for
-improvement!
+pystone benchmark around 33% slower than Python 2.5.  There's room for
+improvement; we expect to be optimizing string and integer operations
+significantly before the final 3.0 release!
 
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