On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:36:35 -0700 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Our current Mac OS X builds use GCC-4.2. > > On Python2.7, I ran a comparison of gcc-4.2.1 builds > versus gcc-4.8.1 and found that the latter makes a much > faster Python. PyBench2.0 shows the total running time > dropping from 5653ms to 4571ms. The code is uniformly > better in just about every category.
You could try running the benchmarks suite to see what that gives: http://hg.python.org/benchmarks/ Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com