Here are some times for converting alldec.ref (2608 records) from refer
to bibtex.  This used bp-0.1.1 and Perl5.001.  bp-0.2.0 is about 20% faster.

Assuming alldec.ref is in the ref directory:

  time ../bin/tconv.pl -convert alldec.ref -to foo.bib -format=refer,bibtex

(139 warnings, 802524 bytes)

Dell Pentium Pro 150MHz		 28.8
Pentium Pro 133MHz BETA		 32.6
HyperSPARC/125			 45.7
Pentium 180 MHz			 46.0
Sun SparcStation 20/61		 46.1
Pentium 133 MHz			 47.3
Pentium 100 MHz			 61.0
HP 9000/735			 83.0  (??  This number seems too slow)
Sun SparcStation 5/85		 88.8
Gateway 2000 PentOD/83		 96.2
Gateway 2000 486/66		137.2
Sun IPX				155.6
HP 9000/710			224.4  (??  also way too slow)



  It is interesting to note that there was almost no gain from overclocking
the 133 MHz Pentium machine to 180 MHz.  This same machine benefits greatly
from overclocking on many other tests, so we're guessing it's memory bound.
The SPARC machines do quite well, and the HP's do very poorly.  This may
be caused by a bad compilation of Perl on the HPs.  The Pentium Pro machines
do extremely well.