jmfauth:
3.2.3 (default, Apr 11 2012, 07:15:24) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] [0.8343414906182101, 0.8336184057396241, 0.8330473419738562] 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 10:55:48) [MSC v.1600 32 bit [1.3840254166697845, 1.3933888932429768, 1.391664674507438]
That's a larger performance decrease than the 64-bit version. Reported the issue as http://bugs.python.org/issue17615 Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list