MinGW and Python

[Edward Elliott]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> about MacOSX, which also uses gcc: 14% faster pybench using Python 2.4.3

this is the second time I've seen that 14% figure.  OOC, where does it come
from?  the data sets you posted show an average 12.6% speedup.  14 is an
odd way to round. :)

I don't think it's very useful to talk about average speedups from a
benchmark of equally-weighted feature tests.  the data shows wildly varying
differences in performance for each test.  a real-world application could
be much slower or much faster on either platform depending on its feature
mix.  not the type of thing that's amenable to expression as a single
value.