Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> writes: > On 14 April 2010 07:37, Paul Rudin <p...@rudin.co.uk> wrote: >> "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> writes: >> >>> The major difference in the "do it yourself" attitude is that Mac user >>> get a compiler for free, as part of the operating system release, >>> whereas for Windows, they have to pay for it (leaving alone VS Express >>> for the moment). >> >> JOOI why ignore the express versions of the MS compilers? All (I think) >> MS compilers are available for free in command line versions - it's the >> GUI tools you pay for. > > I believe that the express editions don't include some of the advanced > optimisations (profile guided optimisation rings a bell) which are > used to build the official binaries. So if the binaries were built > using Express Edition, they would be somewhat slower. > > That is just my recollection, however - it may be out of date or wrong. > Paul.
I could be wrong too. However I think I had two things confused (it's been a while since I've done any windows development). There are two different suites of free compilers from MS. There's the windows sdk, which includes a command line toolchain and the express edition of VS which (essentially) is a cut down version of the commercial version of VS. Some info about the windows sdk versions is here <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd146047.aspx> and about versions - including Express - here (at least for VC++) <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9%28VS.90%29.aspx> although that's a little old. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
