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

[Morten W. Petersen]

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