[macports-ports] branch master updated: Add optimizations variant to python{27, 35, 36, 37}

Perry E. Metzger pmetzger at macports.org
Sun Jul 15 20:30:43 UTC 2018


On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 21:07:38 -0700 Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
wrote:
> "It greatly increases build time so it must be disabled by default."
> is not good justification. In fact, that enabling optimization
> increases build time, is good motivation to *enable* it by default,
> so that most users will be able to use binary packages.

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. 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.

It is thus now available for users, but not the default.

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Perry E. Metzger		pmetzger at macports.org


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