Leonard, Arah <arah.leon...@bruker-axs.com> wrote: > But after benchmarking a PGO build made by running the build_pgo.bat it > turns out that it made no difference whatsoever to my performance loss. > Within an acceptable statistical variation in the benchmark tool itself my > PGO build performed identically to my regular build. Which means that I'm > still running 30% slower than the precompiled binaries somehow even though > I'm theoretically using the right compiler. And which also means that I can > neither confirm nor deny if the released precompiled binaries are PGO builds > or not.
I remember that some versions of Visual Studio silently completed the PGO build without actually having PGO capabilities. :) I think for VS 2008 at least "Professional" is needed, for VS 2010 "Ultimate". Stefan Krah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list