[Python-Dev] Python linkage on macOS (original) (raw)

Ray Donnelly mingw.android at gmail.com
Fri May 4 08:10:46 EDT 2018

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Fri, 04 May 2018 00:21:54 +0000 Ray Donnelly <mingw.android at gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, on Windows there's always a python?.dll. macOS is an interesting one. For Anaconda 5.0 I read somewhere (how's that for a useless reference - and perhaps I got the wrong end of the stick) that Python for all Unixen should use a statically linked interpreter so I happily went ahead and did that. A statically linked Python can also be significantly faster (10 to 20% IIRC, more perhaps on ARM). I think you already know about that :-)

Indeed, and it worked out well on Intel too. Thanks for the recommendation.

Anyway, it is obviously safer for us to do what upstream does and I will try to post some benchmarks of static vs shared to the list so we can discuss it. I have no idea what our default builds do on macOS, I'll let Ned Deily or another mac expert answer (changing the topic in the hope he notices this subthread :-)).

And thanks for doing this. For the benchmarks I think I should build Python 3.6.5 (or would 3.7.0b4 be better?) from pyperformance built each way using the AD scripts and reply here with the results. If I do not get it done today then I hope to get them ready by Monday.

Regards

Antoine.

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