I have found that the sunfreeware.com build of Python 2.4.3 for Solaris 10 is faster than one I can build myself, on the same system. sunfreeware.com doesn't bother showing the options they used to configure and build the software, so does anyone know what the optimal build options are for Solaris 10 (x86)?
Here are some pybench/pystone results, and I include the same comparison of Python2.4.3 running on CentOS 4.3 on the same hardware (which is what prompted me to find a faster Python build in the first place). Python 2.4.3: System pybench Pystone (pystones/s) -------------------------------------------------------- Sol10 my build 3836.00 ms 37313.4 Sol10 sunfreeware 3235.00 ms 43859.6 CentOS 3569.00 ms 44247.8 My build: Python 2.4.3 (#1, Oct 15 2006, 16:00:33) [GCC 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)] on sunos5 sunfreeware.com build: Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jul 31 2006, 05:14:51) [GCC 3.4.6] on sunos5 My build on CentOS 4.3: Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jul 19 2006, 17:52:43) [GCC 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)] on linux2 is the difference purely gcc minor version? -- http://chrismiles.info/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list