Hi all,
This is Alecsandru from the Dynamic Scripting Languages Optimization Team at
Intel Corporation. I want to open a discussion regarding the way CPython is
built, mainly the options that are available to the programmers. Analyzing the
CPython ecosystem we can see that there are a lot of users that just download
the sources and hit the commands "./configure", "make" and "make install" once
and then continue using it with their Python scripts. One of the problems with
this workflow it that the users do not benefit from the entire optimization
features that are existing in the build system, such as PGO and LTO.
Therefore, I propose a workflow, like the following. Assume some work has to be
done into the CPython interpreter, a developer can do the following steps:
A. Implementation and debugging phase.
1. The command "./configure PYDIST=debug" is ran once. It will enable the
Py_DEBUG, -O0 and -g flags
2. The command "make" is ran once or multiple times
B. Testing the implementation from step A, in a pre-release environment
1. The command "./configure PYDIST=devel" is ran once. It will disable the
Py_DEBUG flags and will enable the -O3 and -g flags, and it is just like the
current implementation in CPython
2. The command "make" is ran once or multiple times
C. For any other CPython usage, for example distributing the interpreter,
installing it inside an operating system, or just the majority of users who are
not CPython developers and only want to compile it once and use it as-is:
1. The command "./configure" is ran once. Alternatively, the command
"./configure PYDIST=release" can be used. It will disable all debugging
functionality, enable the -O3 flag and will enable PGO and LTO.
2. The command "make" is ran once
If you think this benefits CPython, I can create an issue and post the patches
that enable all of the above.
Thank you,
Alecsandru
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