On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:59:05 -0700 Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > So even is SSE2 provides little for Python itself, in the usual case, we'll > see performance hits n compiled extensions that are not compiled by > particularly smart people.
Since the question is only for 32-bit builds, does this even matter? 32-bit builds on x86 generally bring you poorer performance by themselves, as the CPU has only access to 8 general-purpose registers (instead of 16) in that mode. If you want better performance (or want to efficiently address 3+GB of RAM, which is an extremely common situation nowadays), you probably want 64-bit builds. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
