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I have my own benchmark program that I use for number crunching.
It uses a mixture of Python and Numeric Python.

Athlon 2166Mhz as reported by OS:  2m38.7s
Intel Centrino Pentium 1700 Mhz:   2m17s

Is it just compiler optimization at play?

Sincerely,

Rob