Hi, today I made some tests of the strdict code on snake: date size codesize executable richards pystone Thu Jul 27 20:14:33 2006 - - python 2.4.3 795ms ( 1.0x) 40000 ( 1.0x) Thu Jul 27 20:08:02 2006 10425736 2475162 pypy-llvm-30641-x86 2902ms ( 3.6x) 9191 ( 4.4x) Thu Jul 27 20:05:53 2006 10474191 2028604 pypy-llvm-30641-c-prof 1795ms ( 2.3x) 14619 ( 2.7x) Thu Jul 27 19:58:41 2006 10574247 2128805 pypy-llvm-30641-c 2193ms ( 2.8x) 11441 ( 3.5x) Thu Jul 27 17:37:21 2006 10162160 2208132 pypy-c-30634-profopt 2380ms ( 3.0x) 12285 ( 3.3x) Thu Jul 27 16:56:55 2006 10382148 2428236 pypy-c-30634 2590ms ( 3.3x) 10846 ( 3.7x) 2.3x is really neat - 1.0x is not far :-) Kind regards, Alexander