The performance difference I see on my Sparc is smaller. The machine is a 200MHz Ultra Sparc 2 with 256MB of RAM, built both versions with GCC 2.8.1. It appears that 1.6a2 is about 3.3% slower. The median pystone time taken from 10 measurements are: 1.5.2 4.87 1.6a2 5.035 For comparison, the numbers I see on my Linux box (dual PII 266) are: 1.5.2 3.18 1.6a2 3.53 That's about 10% faster under 1.5.2. I'm not sure how important this change is. Three percent isn't enough for me to worry about, but it's a minority platform. I suppose 10 percent is right on the cusp. If the performance difference is the cost of the many improvements of 1.6, I think it's worth the price. Jeremy
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