[Python-Dev] Building a Faster Python

[Brian Curtin]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Ben Hoyt <benhoyt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> PyBench2.0 shows the total running time dropping from 5653ms to 4571ms.
>
> That's very cool -- a significant improvement. Is this the kind of change
> that could go into 2.7.6 binaries?
>
> As a Windows user, it makes me wonder if compiling with the latest version
> of the Microsoft compiler would improve things similarly? (Though updating
> project files to that is almost certainly a bigger project than the gcc
> update.)

I think I have a 3.3 build on VS2012 somewhere - maybe I'll refresh it
for default/3.4 and run the same benchmarks on it. The changes
couldn't go into 2.7 as far as I'm aware, at least when it comes to
changing Visual Studio versions.