On 24 Nov 2013 17:15, "Gregory P. Smith" <g...@krypto.org> wrote: > > our buildbots are setup to configure --with-pydebug which also unfortunately causes them to compile with -O0... this results in a python binary that is excruciatingly slow and makes the entire test suite run take a long time. > > given that nobody is ever going to run a gdb or another debugger on the buildbot generated transient binaries themselves how about we speed all of the buildbot's up by adding CFLAGS=-O2 to the configure command line?
The main problem is that doing so would disable test_gdb. Humans don't run gdb on those binaries, but the test suite does. I agree it would be nice to figure out a way to run most of the tests on an optimised build, though. Cheers, Nick. > > Sure, the compile step will take a bit longer but that is dwarfed by the test time as it is: > > http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Ubuntu%20LTS%203.x/builds/3224 > http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/ARMv7%203.x/builds/7 > http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Snow%20Leop%203.x/builds/639 > > It should dramatically decrease the turnaround latency for buildbot results. > > -gps > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ncoghlan%40gmail.com >
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