On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 19:34:58 -0700 Eitan Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 at 17:00, Perry E. Metzger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I want to be clear about something. In theory, we could turn on > > runtime trace guided optimization for _every_ binary. Python isn't > > particularly special on this. It would also, in my opinion, be a > > horrible mistake -- the benefits are fairly small compared to the > > astonishing build times. There are people for whom this is > > important, but they're not normal users. > > Users that build that want shorter build times can turn off > optimizations. Those that use the defaults and use binary packages, > do not have that option. > > Remember, as a macports developer, or even contributor, you're in > the minority. The vast majority of people just stay with the > defaults.
Which is why making it take a couple orders of magnitude longer to build seems like a bad idea. On an older machine this could be a very very long time indeed. -- Perry E. Metzger [email protected]
