[Python-Dev] No-cost optimizing VC 7.1

[Tim Peters]

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.