[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope-Coders] Zope builds (new Intel C++ compiler)

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:52:26PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:

The Intel compiler tries to exploit special short-vector hardware that's of great use in number-crunching apps that spend most of their time in tight, regular, numeric inner loops, but sits idle otherwise. There's very little of that in Python or Zope.

Would the difference be negligible? What compilers are currently used for Windows/Linux? Are 'better' compilers available? Regards, Morten