[Python-Dev] Building a Faster Python

[David Malcolm]

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 17:15 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:08:32 -0400,
> David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> a écrit :
> > 
> > How did this thread go from:
> >   "for OS X, GCC 4.8.1 gives you significantly faster machine code
> >    than the system GCC 4.2.1"
> > to
> >   "let's just use clang"
> > ?
> > 
> > Presumably if you want the faster possible machine code for the
> > platform the correct approach is to benchmark the available compilers
> > trying various options and to see which does best.
> 
> Depends whether the goal is to choose the fastest compiler, or to
> use the platform's official compiler. Linux distributions don't compile
> packages with icc, AFAIK.

If Intel put icc under a Free Software/Open Source license, maybe we
would ;-)

(only my own opinion, of course)
Dave