slowdown on looping

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Trevor Perrin wrote:
> Never mind, Python's just too speedy for my laptop - the CPU's
> overheating, as Bengt thought.

Oh, great. As if there weren't enough tricky things to take into
account when benchmarking on modern machines - we now have to take
care to pre-heat the CPU, too!

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg