slowdown on looping

[Trevor Perrin]

trevp at trevp.net (Trevor Perrin) wrote in message news:<47e891f1.0310032150.4e9f9316 at posting.google.com>...
> After running a simple loop around 100-200 million times, there's a
> speed drop of about a factor of 7.  This happens within several
> minutes (on a 1.7 Ghz machine), so it's not that hard to see.

Never mind, Python's just too speedy for my laptop - the CPU's
overheating, as Bengt thought.  I'll have to switch to VB or something
;-)  Thanks, people..

Trevor