Peter Maas <fpetermaas at netscape.net> writes: [...] > Your test is probably closest to the "reverse file" benchmark > where cygperl : python : perl = 0.68 : 1.68 : 12.72 on win32 > and perl : python = 1.06 : 1.17 on Linux. [...] Why on earth is cygperl faster than perl? Is that really correct? John