[Python-Dev] Python 3.5 on VC14 - update

[Steve Dower]

> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le 10/06/2014 12:30, Steve Dower a écrit :
>>
>> I ran a quick test with profile-guided optimization (PGO, pronounced
>> "pogo"), which has supposedly been improved since VC9, and saw a very
>> unscientific 20% speed improvement on pybench.py and 10% size reduction in
>> python35.dll. I'm not sure what we used to get from VC9, but it certainly seems
>> worth enabling provided it doesn't break anything.
>> (Interestingly, PGO decided that only 1% of functions needed to be compiled for
>> speed. Not sure if I can find out which ones those are but if anyone's
>> interested I can give it a shot?)
> 
> I would recommend using the non-trivial suite of benchmarks at
> http://hg.python.org/benchmarks (both for the profiling and the benchmarking,
> though you may want to use additional workloads for profiling too)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Antoine.
>

Thanks. I knew there was a proper set somewhere, but didn't manage to track it down in the minute or so I spent looking :)

Cheers,
Steve