Since this is getting worked on now, I figured I'd post the benchmark URL for anyone who might be interested:
ftp://python.org/pub/python/parrotbench/parrotbench.tgz It's pretty evil, and there's a chunk of "let's exercise python's builtins just because" code in there. Worth taking a look at, as we may well enlist the aid of the list to get some of those built-in functions working. (Which will be cool, since it'll mean a push to get a chunk of extra, useful functionality in) Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
