Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Note that both machines are x86_64. Please try your test on a 32-bit > machine and report the results. I suspect performance won't degrade > there.
This theory seems to be supported by my findings. Running the test on a 32-bit machine took 45 seconds, while the same test on a 64-bit machine is taking ... 30 minutes SO FAR (I'm getting impatient ;-) Both machines are running Python2.3.4 under CentOS-4, and both have 1G of RAM. The 64-bit machine has 2 processors weighing in at 2792.097 Mhz each, while the 32-bit machine has only 1 1194.857 Mhz processor. Jeffrey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list