[Python-Dev] Building a Faster Python (original) (raw)
David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Mon Jul 22 17:24:34 CEST 2013
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On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 17:15 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
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.
If Intel put icc under a Free Software/Open Source license, maybe we would ;-)
(only my own opinion, of course) Dave
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