sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > > > - gcc does not optimize particularly well. > > That is beyond BS. The more recent gcc releases optimize as well as any > commercial compiler. GCC 4 may even optimize better than MSVC. > > GCC is the compiler used to build the Linux kernel and MacOSX. If it > can deal with this I say it can handle Python as well. My guess is you > will not notice any performance difference for the Python interpreter.
That is quite possible, of course: if, for example, the 14% speed difference I measured with pybench is representative, then you might not notice it because human beings have a hard time noticing time differences of that magnitude. But it might still be there, easy to measure, even though not to notice. At the same time, if the 14% slowdown is representative, then it's not true that the compiler responsible for it "optimizes as well" as the other; indeed, "does not optimize particularly well", under such a hypothesis, would be far from a "beyond BS" assertion. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list