Oops! daniel.colchete@xxxxxxxxx ("Daniel van Ham Colchete") was seen spray-painting on a wall: > But, trust me on this one. It's worth it. No, the point of performance analysis is that you *can't* trust the people that say "trust me on this one." If you haven't got a benchmark where you can demonstrate a material and repeatable difference, then you're just some Gentoo "speed racer" making things up. -- select 'cbbrowne' || '@' || 'acm.org'; http://linuxdatabases.info/info/wp.html One last point about metaphor, poetry, etc. As an example to illustrate these capabilities in Sastric Sanskrit, consider the "bahuvrihi" construct (literally "man with a lot of rice") which is used currently in linguistics to describe references outside of compounds.