On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > 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 :-) >
Indeed, and it worked out well on Intel too. Thanks for the recommendation. >> 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 :-)). > And thanks for doing this. For the benchmarks I think I should build Python 3.6.5 (or would 3.7.0b4 be better?) from pyperformance built each way using the AD scripts and reply here with the results. If I do not get it done today then I hope to get them ready by Monday. > 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/mingw.android%40gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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
