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diff --git a/PCbuild8/readme.txt b/PCbuild8/readme.txt index e521fee..fa4fcb5 100644 --- a/PCbuild8/readme.txt +++ b/PCbuild8/readme.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ the "Standard" toolbar"), and build the projects. The proper order to build subprojects: 1) pythoncore (this builds the main Python DLL and library files, - python25.{dll, lib} in Release mode) + python26.{dll, lib} in Release mode) NOTE: in previous releases, this subproject was named after the release number, e.g. python20. @@ -25,8 +25,21 @@ The proper order to build subprojects: to the subsystems they implement, or are running a Python core buildbot test slave; see SUBPROJECTS below) +Binary files go into PCBuild8\Win32 or \x64 directories and don't +interfere with each other. + When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to -their name: python25_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on. +their name: python26_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on. + +There are two special configurations for the pythoncore project and +the solution. These are PGIRelease and PGORelease. They are for +createing profile-guided optimized versions of python.dll. +The former creates the instrumented binaries, and the latter +runs python.exe with the instrumented python.dll on the performance +testsuite, and creates a new, optimized, python.dll in +PCBuild8\Win32\PGORelease, or in the x64 folder. Note that although +we can cross-compile x64 binaries on a 32 bit machine, we cannot +create the PGO binaries, since they require actually running the code. SUBPROJECTS ----------- @@ -37,12 +50,6 @@ supporting that module unless they import the module. pythoncore .dll and .lib -pythoncore_pgo - .dll and .lib, a variant of pythoncore that is optimized through a - Profile Guided Optimization (PGO), employing pybench as the profile - case to optimize for. The results are produced as a python25.{dll,lib} - in the subfolder 'pythoncore_pgo'. To use this instead of the - standard Python dll place this dll with the python.exe. python .exe pythonw |