sr-172 stali> cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 2789.823 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid xtpr bogomips : 5584.07 clflush size : 64 sr-172 stali> python -V Python 2.4.4 sr-172 stali> cat test.py (taken from comp.lang.python) #!/usr/bin/python i = 1 j = 0 while i < 100000000: j=j+i i=i+1 print j sr-172 stali> time ./test.py 4999999950000000 91.813u 0.028s 1:31.92 99.9% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w sr-172 stali> cat test.f90 program main integer(8) :: i,j i = 1 j = 0 do while (i < 100000000) j=j+i i=i+1 end do print*, j end program main sr-172 stali> ifort -v Version 10.0 sr-172 stali> ifort test.f90 sr-172 stali> time ./a.out 4999999950000000 0.236u 0.000s 0:00.22 104.5% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w