Hi, Alex Leach <albl500 at york.ac.uk> wrote: > I've managed to compile everything in the python distribution except for > Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/ffi64.c. There is an issue for this: http://bugs.python.org/issue4130 > After compilation, there's a few tests that are consistently failing, mainly > involved with floating point precision: test_cmath, test_math and test_float. I think you have to compile with "-fp-model strict". In general, please submit suspected bugs on http://bugs.python.org/ (after searching the archives) and post things like speed comparisons on python-list at python.org. Stefan Krah