Franz Steinhaeusler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Yes, people have compiled Python with gcc on windows. I believe it is
>>slightly slower than the standard release, but I would guess that may
>>depend on the exact versions of gcc/msc you choose to compare, and the
>>exact compiler options you choose (or I may even be imagining it
>>entirely).
>
> I cannot imagine, that there is a decisive difference, especially as
> in gcc, you have also a couple of options.
>
I did a quick comparison running pystone and taking the best of several
runs:
On one system which had the Windows Python 2.4 distribution and also
Python 2.4 installed under cygwin:
Windows Python 2.4: 46k
Cygwin Python 2.4: 41k
On another system which has a dual boot setup:
Windows Python 2.5: 43.7k
Ubuntu Python 2.5: 42.0k
So in the first case there was about a 12% improvement and in the second
case about 5% improvement using the Windows distribution.
I don't know whether the gap is closing from improvements in gcc or
whether there is an OS related difference as well. Unfortunately cygwin
doesn't appear to offer Python 2.5 yet.
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