Neal Becker wrote: >> 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.
> 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. what part of "the standard build of 2.4.3 in either case" do you have trouble understanding ? (what makes you think that 2.4.3 for windows is compiled with the best possible compiler for the windows environment?) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list