<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >20 MBs = 5 M 32-bit words = 1.25 millis to move half of them on a >2GHz machine. Don't know how much a milli costs where you live.
A 2GHz machine doesn't have 20Mb of 2GHz memory. You made the mistake of measuring the speed of processor's cache, rather than the RAM. Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db // -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list