On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 00:13 +0100, Andy Morris wrote: > ... i made a simple program to count from 0 > to a parameter x number of times, test data was to count 0-999999999 100 > times. XP box did it in 3mins 10 secs, linux 5 mins 4 secs ( i did this > numerous times and results were always v similar). Well, now you know that if you want to do something (pointless) like that as quickly as possible, then you should use windows :-) -Mark