[woodsplitter] > MS Visual C++ 6 is indeed the compiler that the python.org > distributions are built with
Just to add back some context for people not following the thread: this is Python 2.3 we're talking about. 2.4 is built with Visual Studio.NET. > but MinGW works fine too. In fact, the > code generated by MinGW-GCC 3.4.4 outpaces that generated by MSVC++ 6.0 > by a considerable margin in some of my performance-critical extensions, > and the size of the binaries is often smaller. Interesting! -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
