Robert Kern wrote: > Dunno. Depends on the machine. Depends on the program. Depends on how the > interpreter and any extension modules and underlying libraries were built. > Depends on which Linux and which Windows. > > I'm sorry, but your question is a non sequitur. I don't understand its > relevance > to this thread.
The relevance: Python is built with GCC on Linux. Do you or do you not see a performance hit on Linux? MinGW is GCC. Will you get a performance hit when building Python with MinGW? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list