Roel Schroeven wrote: > ... 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.
I musunderstood you. I thought you were advocating that Python itself be built on gcc, obviating many compiler access issues. That wouldn't work because gcc cannot, by itself (as I understand it) get to all the nooks and crannies a windows developer may need to traverse. I know I just repeated my argument here against a strawman, but that was really for other readers, not for you. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
