"Chris Liechti" <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote in message news:Xns937F814878E7cliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.82... > yes ;-) > > 1.7s on my P4 2.5GHz 0.9s on my Centrino (1.6GHZ PentiumM) with Python 2.3b1, command-line) My new Dell D800 laptop. I'm amazed at just how fast this thing runs Python. I think it's fast because it has a huge cache