[Python-Dev] Building a Faster Python

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:36:35 -0700
Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Our current Mac OS X builds use GCC-4.2.
> 
> On Python2.7, I ran a comparison of gcc-4.2.1 builds
> versus gcc-4.8.1 and found that the latter makes a much
> faster Python.  PyBench2.0 shows the total running time
> dropping from 5653ms to 4571ms.  The code is uniformly
> better in just about every category.

You could try running the benchmarks suite to see what that gives:
http://hg.python.org/benchmarks/

Regards

Antoine.