title: Python Performance on Windows
body: <p>Is Python generally slower on Windows vs. a *nix machine?  Python seems to blaze on my Mac OS X machine whereas it <em>seems</em> to run slower on my Window's Vista machine. The machines are similar in processing power and the vista machine has 1GBs more memory. </p>
  
  <p>I particularly notice this in Mercurial but I figure this may simply be how Mercurial is packaged on windows. </p>