Scott David Daniels schreef: > Roel Schroeven wrote: >> Isn't Python for other platforms built with GCC? Seems to me that if it >> GCC is good enough for other platforms, it's good enough for Windows. > > You clearly misunderstand the interface to the Windows OS & GUI system.
Very well possible. > Microsoft provides that interface through its language systems, and has > used that edge to knock off other compilers (such as WatCom) by > providing header files that are not standard C compatible. It seems that many people successfully use mingw. At work I use a Borland compiler all the time, without compatibility problems with Windows' APIs. But what I meant was not related to interface compatibilities, but to the performance of the generated code: many people say that the code generated by gcc is not as well optimized as code generated by Microsoft's compilers. Yet I never hear complaints about that from people who use Python on e.g. Linux, where Python is compiled with gcc. So, while there might be valid reasons not to use mingw, as far as I can see the optimization capabilities of the compiler are not a compelling reason. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
