MinGW and Python

[Neal Becker]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> sturlamolden <sturlamolden at yahoo.no> wrote:
> 
>> Robert Kern wrote:
>> 
>> > Dunno. Depends on the machine. Depends on the program. Depends on how
>> > the interpreter and any extension modules and underlying libraries were
>> > built. Depends on which Linux and which Windows.
>> >
>> > I'm sorry, but your question is a non sequitur. I don't understand its
>> > relevance to this thread.
>> 
>> The relevance: Python is built with GCC on Linux. Do you or do you not
>> see a performance hit on Linux?
>> 
>> MinGW is GCC. Will you get a performance hit when building Python with
>> MinGW?
> 
> I cannot predict this, though it would be great if somebody who does
> have both VS2003 and mingw could give it a try.
> 
> What I did just post on another thread over the last couple of days is
> about MacOSX, which also uses gcc: 14% faster pybench using Python 2.4.3
> under Win2000 under Parallels Workstation beta, compared to 2.4.3
> Universal directly on MacOSX -- the standard build of 2.4.3 in either
> cause, i.e., the one built with MS compilers on Windows, vs the one
> built with Apple's gcc on MacOSX.
> 
> 
> Alex

Please when  quoting such benchmarks include gcc version.  gcc >= 4.1 is
supposed to have a lot of performance improvements.  This is the current
release.  Since mingw is usually current, I haven't checked, but they may
be using 4.1 now.