MinGW and Python

[Edward Elliott]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> At the same time, if the 14% slowdown is representative, then it's not
> true that the compiler responsible for it "optimizes as well" as the
> other; indeed, "does not optimize particularly well", under such a
> hypothesis, would be far from a "beyond BS" assertion.

Maybe someone with access to Windows and some free time could compare
pybench compiled under msvc and mingw.  The best way to test the compiler
is to eliminate all other variables.