MinGW and Python

[Robert Kern]

Brian Elmegaard wrote:
> Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>- gcc does not optimize particularly well.
> 
> But well enough for other platforms.

Well, it tends to optimize just as poorly for other platforms, too. It's just
frequently the only compiler widely available on those platforms. The goal of
the gcc project is to provide a portable compiler, not one that generates the
best code for any given platform. And in that goal, it succeeds remarkably well.

-- 
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco