[Python-Dev] Building a Faster Python

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 22 Jul, 2013, at 1:46, 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?

I'd prefer not to do that (but don't build the installers anymore).  The installers for OSX are build using the system compiler, using a different compiler makes it harder to build the installer.

I don't even know if upstream GCC could easily be used for the binary installers, does GCC 4.8 support building FAT binaries in its compiler driver?

Ronald