Richards bench benchmark

[Duncan Lissett]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message news:<40899240.7020508 at engcorp.com>...

> Okay, first working version is available by going to 
> http://www.engcorp.com/main/projects/PyBench .
> 
> That's about all the time I can spare on this for now.
> Feel free to download, hack, improve, or ignore.

Excellent! 

I've added the Python implementation timings:
http://www.lissett.com/ben/bench1.htm

I've no prior experience of Python to judge from, but for some reason
I expected it to be faster than the interpreted implementation of
Smalltalk designed for mobile devices.