Alex Martelli wrote: > sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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? > > I cannot predict this, though it would be great if somebody who does > have both VS2003 and mingw could give it a try. > > What I did just post on another thread over the last couple of days is > about MacOSX, which also uses gcc: 14% faster pybench using Python 2.4.3 > under Win2000 under Parallels Workstation beta, compared to 2.4.3 > Universal directly on MacOSX -- the standard build of 2.4.3 in either > cause, i.e., the one built with MS compilers on Windows, vs the one > built with Apple's gcc on MacOSX. > > > Alex
Please when quoting such benchmarks include gcc version. gcc >= 4.1 is supposed to have a lot of performance improvements. This is the current release. Since mingw is usually current, I haven't checked, but they may be using 4.1 now. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
