[Python-Dev] Building a Faster Python

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:08:32 -0400,
David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> a écrit :
> 
> How did this thread go from:
>   "for OS X, GCC 4.8.1 gives you significantly faster machine code
>    than the system GCC 4.2.1"
> to
>   "let's just use clang"
> ?
> 
> Presumably if you want the faster possible machine code for the
> platform the correct approach is to benchmark the available compilers
> trying various options and to see which does best.

Depends whether the goal is to choose the fastest compiler, or to
use the platform's official compiler. Linux distributions don't compile
packages with icc, AFAIK.

Regards

Antoine.