On 30 Jan 2010, at 16:28, Paul Onions wrote: > BTW I'm running 1.5-dev-r13391M-trunk (DarwinPPC32) > Seems that it must be related either to PPC-ness or 32bit-ness, because running the test functions on a 1.5-dev-r13281M-trunk (LinuxX8664) system gave good results (almost identical timing for the two functions). Paul