[Python-Dev] Building a Faster Python

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:36:35 -0700
> Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Our current Mac OS X builds use GCC-4.2.
>>
>> On Python2.7, I ran a comparison of gcc-4.2.1 builds
>> versus gcc-4.8.1 and found that the latter makes a much
>> faster Python.  PyBench2.0 shows the total running time
>> dropping from 5653ms to 4571ms.  The code is uniformly
>> better in just about every category.
>
> You could try running the benchmarks suite to see what that gives:
> http://hg.python.org/benchmarks/
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.

or pypy benchmark suite which is more comprehensive for python 2.7
(http://bitbucket.org/pypy/benchmarks)