On Fri, 04 May 2018 00:21:54 +0000
Ray Donnelly
Yes, on Windows there's always a python?.dll.
macOS is an interesting one. For Anaconda 5.0 I read somewhere (how's that for a useless reference - and perhaps I got the wrong end of the stick) that Python for all Unixen should use a statically linked interpreter so I happily went ahead and did that.
A statically linked Python can also be significantly faster (10 to 20% IIRC, more perhaps on ARM). I think you already know about that :-)
Anyway, it is obviously safer for us to do what upstream does and I will try to post some benchmarks of static vs shared to the list so we can discuss it.
I have no idea what our default builds do on macOS, I'll let Ned Deily or another mac expert answer (changing the topic in the hope he notices this subthread :-)). Regards Antoine.