On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 at 13:30, Perry E. Metzger <[email protected]> wrote: > It can take tens of minutes instead of a minute or two to build > when you turn it on. That's quite different from the fairly slight > change that normal optimization brings.
Does it change the amount of time to install a binary package? For most users the cost will be paid by the builders, not the users. > Indeed, for some people, the > extra time for the build may significantly exceed the sum of the gains > they ever experience running Python over the lifetime of the binaries. And those people can turn it off. > It is thus now available for users, but not the default. And this is a mistake. -- Eitan Adler
