ummm, isn't this "test" more a test of the filesystem/io that of perl or macperl? i would expect anything reading or writing to the mac file system to run slower that it would on, say, linux. Paul DuBois <paul@snake.net> wrote: >I ran the test program on my 9600/300 and it took ... 1 second. ouch! consider me *OUTRAGEOUSLY* jealous! i had to wait 35 whole seconds on my 7600/120. got to go and talk to my boss about a possible 350% productivity improvement... iain ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch