MinGW and Python

[Fredrik Lundh]

Neal Becker wrote:

>> What I did just post on another thread over the last couple of days is
>> about MacOSX, which also uses gcc: 14% faster pybench using Python 2.4.3
>> under Win2000 under Parallels Workstation beta, compared to 2.4.3
>> Universal directly on MacOSX -- the standard build of 2.4.3 in either
>> cause, i.e., the one built with MS compilers on Windows, vs the one
>> built with Apple's gcc on MacOSX.

> Please when  quoting such benchmarks include gcc version.  gcc >= 4.1 is
> supposed to have a lot of performance improvements.  This is the current
> release.  Since mingw is usually current, I haven't checked, but they may
> be using 4.1 now.

does
    "the standard build of 2.4.3 in either case"

do you have trouble understanding ?

(what makes you think that 2.4.3 for windows is compiled with the best possible
compiler for the windows environment?)

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