New submission from Alexander Riccio <test35...@gmail.com>:
This isn't a priority issue I'd say. However, fixing it could yield nice benefits. I ran into this while experimenting with JUMBO/Unity builds as part of a bit of fun I've been having tweaking build options across the CPython ecosystem. Theoretically, a JUMBO/Unity build could reduce code size, improve performance, and maybe even help code analysis detect more bugs by building everything in a single compilation unit. Link Time Code Generation is great, but usually isn't as good as building everything in a single compilation unit. An example of an interesting thing noticed while compiling as a Unity build: This exact variable is defined twice in two separate source files, itertoolsmodule.c:4303, and and collectionsmodule.c:1774: PyDoc_STRVAR(length_hint_doc, "Private method returning an estimate of len(list(it))."); ...the default Release configuration includes this exact string 12 (!) times. There's a lot of stuff like that. It's not actually broken, and sometimes it's probably inconvenient to fix it (what are you gonna do? put it in a header?), but it would be nice. ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 365636 nosy: Alexander Riccio priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Name collisions in pythoncore, preventing unity/jumbo build type: compile error versions: Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40161> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
