Dan> I also see an 8-10% speed decrease in 2.4 (I built) from 2.3.3 Dan> (shipped w/Fedora2) in the program I'm writing (best of 3 trials Dan> each). Memory use seems to be about the same.
How do you how the compiler flags were the same if you didn't compile both versions yourself? Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list