[Python-Dev] Python 2.6a2 execution times with various compilers

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

I did some more tests concentrating on GCC, partly based on the feedback I
got, results at
http://www.in-nomine.org/2008/04/12/python-26-compiler-options-results/

Executive summary: Python needs to be compiled with -O2 or -O3. Not doing
so, no optimization level, results with GCC 4.2.1 in a doubling of execution
time. Using just -O1 is still ~15% slower than using -O2.

Using -mtune=native -march=native can shave of 0,1/0,2 seconds, but
otherwise I did not find much difference in using having march or mfpmath
present.

Profile-guided optimization did not help much, as might be expected, it
pushed about the same kind of optimization as the mtune/march combination.

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