Ian> It would be interesting to see if that held up on ppc64. My guess Ian> is that it would benchmark slower in 64-bit mode than 32-bit mode Ian> on ppc. I added a pystone entry to the table for my G5 with the Python 2.6a0 interpreter compiled with -fast -fPIC -fwrapv. I saw a reasonable speedup (35461 -> 37313). Skip