On Fri, 04 May 2018 00:21:54 +0000 Ray Donnelly <mingw.andr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, on Windows there's always a python?.dll. > > macOS is an interesting one. For Anaconda 5.0 I read somewhere (how's that > for a useless reference - and perhaps I got the wrong end of the stick) > that Python for all Unixen should use a statically linked interpreter so I > happily went ahead and did that.
A statically linked Python can also be significantly faster (10 to 20% IIRC, more perhaps on ARM). I think you already know about that :-) > Anyway, it is obviously safer for us to do what upstream does and I will > try to post some benchmarks of static vs shared to the list so we can > discuss it. I have no idea what our default builds do on macOS, I'll let Ned Deily or another mac expert answer (changing the topic in the hope he notices this subthread :-)). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
