Stelios> I'm collecting small testlets to benchmark it, discover Stelios> bottlenecks and improve it. They should be small and not use Stelios> any crazy modules. Only [sys, os, itertools, thread, Stelios> threading, math, random] for now.
Take a look around for Marc Andre Lemburg's pybench suite. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list