SOLVED (Re: Python hits the spot)

[Jimmy Retzlaff]

Bengt Richter wrote:
>>> Well, lucky guess on the heat. That _probably_ accounts for laptop
>>> going to 87% and then shutting down, but how about the other huge
>>> slowdowns in your big loop of 8? Did you get that diagnosed too?
>>> Just curious ;-)
>>
>>On my stationary machine definitely not. The 8 steps remain constant.
I 
>
>Still curious ;-)

I believe that newer mobile CPUs will throttle back their clock speed in
response to heat. This could explain the slow down. Apparently the
lowest clock speed wasn't low enough to keep the CPU happy...

Jimmy