[Python-Dev] No-cost optimizing VC 7.1

Thanks to David Abrahams for passing on this info: a free optimizing cmdline VC 7.1 has been released by MS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/ The 32MB download appears to contain much of the meat of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional, including the compiler, linker, static-link libraries for the C, C++ & STL runtimes, and the .NET Common Language Runtime.