MS Compiler to build Python 2.3 extension

[Richie Hindle]

[woodsplitter]
> MS Visual C++ 6 is indeed the compiler that the python.org
> distributions are built with

Just to add back some context for people not following the thread: this is
Python 2.3 we're talking about.  2.4 is built with Visual Studio.NET.

> but MinGW works fine too.  In fact, the
> code generated by MinGW-GCC 3.4.4 outpaces that generated by MSVC++ 6.0
> by a considerable margin in some of my performance-critical extensions,
> and the size of the binaries is often smaller.

Interesting!

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Richie Hindle
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