On Mar 18, 6:22 pm, Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18/03/2007 13.24, DavidRushbywrote: > > > Even though I have access to MSVC 7.1, so I don't really need MinGW > > myself, [...] > > But remember that GCC 4.1.2 is almost 4 years newer than MSVC 7.1, and > I found it to produce more optimized code (especially for C++). Since it's > a free alternative, it might be worth to give it a go :)
I just wrote a high-performance Windows-1251 codec in C (an optimized alternative to Python's including 'cp1251' codec). On Windows 2000 / Prescott PIV, GCC 4.1.2 does indeed produce code that is 30% faster than MSVC (this is with aggressive optimization switch tinkering on both compilers). This is for fairly simple, non- floating-point C code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
