I was exercising the alpha two release of 3.4 and noticed that it is still being built under GCC 4.2.1.
Is there any reason we have to use an old compiler? I would like to see it built under the latest version of Clang (like the other tools on the Mac) or under GCC 4.8.1. I've better using the latter for many months. It works great and produces *much* better code (in terms of readability for those of us who look at assembly output and in terms of speed (approx 20-25% better for cpu bound code)). I'm wondering whether is some issue that forces us to use GCC 4.2.1 or whether that is just an artifact of continuing to do what we've always been doing. Raymond _______________________________________________ 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
