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Hi,

This is my first time on Python-dev, so I apologize for my newbie-ness.

I have been doing some performance experiments with memcmp, and I was

surprised that memcmp wasn't faster than it was in Python.  I did a whole, 

long analysis and came up with some very simple results.

Before I put in a tracker bug report, I wanted to present my findings

and make sure they were repeatable to others (isn't that the nature

of science? ;)   as well as offer discussion.

The analysis is a pdf and is here: 

    http://www.picklingtools.com/study.pdf

The testcases are a tarball here:

   http://www.picklingtools.com/PickTest5.tar.gz

I have three basic recommendations in the study: I am

curious what other people think.