On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 17:15 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:08:32 -0400, > David Malcolm <dmalc...@redhat.com> a écrit : > > > > How did this thread go from: > > "for OS X, GCC 4.8.1 gives you significantly faster machine code > > than the system GCC 4.2.1" > > to > > "let's just use clang" > > ? > > > > Presumably if you want the faster possible machine code for the > > platform the correct approach is to benchmark the available compilers > > trying various options and to see which does best. > > Depends whether the goal is to choose the fastest compiler, or to > use the platform's official compiler. Linux distributions don't compile > packages with icc, AFAIK.
If Intel put icc under a Free Software/Open Source license, maybe we would ;-) (only my own opinion, of course) Dave _______________________________________________ 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
