I'm sorry if this is OT. I have just managed to get Python 2.3a running on an 8meg m68k-nommu 48MHZ (motorola uC5272 board). It's a real dog, and I'm wondering two things: 1. anyone remember pystone values from old Sun 68K machines? I've seen a report that a Psion 5 running 1.5.2 got 90 pystones (I get 72) 2. any ideas how I can speed this up? OPT=-DNDEBUG -g -O0 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -m5307 Some snips from pyconfig.h: #define WITH_DOC_STRINGS #undef Py_DEBUG #define WITH_PYMALLOC I haven't enabled optimatization yet because I've had such a difficult time even getting this far, I didn't want to run into compiler errors. It seems so slow, that test/testall doesn't even produce any output. At least, not after 2 minutes.. Perhaps that's a buffering issue. # ./python pystone.py nulltime 0.04 Pystone(1.1) time for 600 passes = 8.27 This machine benchmarks at 72.5514 pystones/second -- Brad Clements, bkc@murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax http://www.wecanstopspam.org/ AOL-IM: BKClements