After installing Text::Balanced on my trusty 561.... [msmith@linux parrot]$ time perl newasm examples/assembly/mops.pasm > mops.pbc Using /home/msmith/parrot/blib
real 0m0.564s user 0m0.520s sys 0m0.050s [msmith@linux parrot]$ time perl assemble.pl examples/assembly/mops.pasm > mops.pbc real 0m0.821s user 0m0.790s sys 0m0.030s [msmith@linux parrot]$ time perl newasm examples/assembly/queens.pasm > queens.pbc Using /home/msmith/parrot/blib real 0m0.890s user 0m0.820s sys 0m0.070s [msmith@linux parrot]$ time perl assemble.pl examples/assembly/queens.pasm > queens.pbc real 0m1.918s user 0m1.900s sys 0m0.020s Twice as fast, not bad. :) Good work mate! -Melvin