Came across this article on Ars on a new LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) JIT compiler for Python being built by Google: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars Now the question is will this make Vista run faster? Thought I'd share (If its old news, its new to me) Adonis