On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 22:30 Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 19. 11. 19 21:55, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 8:32 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 19. 11. 19 20:20, Adam Jackson wrote:
> >>> In the spirit of positivity and collaboration, I spent a few minutes
> >>> looking at the results given to try to find some easy wins. Here's what
> >>> I found:
> >>>
> >>> python3-libs ships multiple copies of its pyc files, corresponding to
> >>> different optimization levels. I don't know what a good packaging
> >>> solution to that would look like, but if we only shipped the -O2 kind
> >>> (which seems appropriate for minimization, as they're smallest) we
> >>> could drop about 13M out of 32M, which seems pretty great.
> >>
> >> Note that it would make more sense to drop the optimized ones, as most
> of our
> >> packages invoke Python without -O or -OO.
> >>
> >> It would certainly need more planning and figuring out what shall
> happen if the
> >> optimized bytecode is not there and users actually run Python with -O
> or -OO,
> >> but we can discusses that if you want.
> >
> > I wonder, does running python programs with -O2 actually yield
> > noticeably better performance?
> > If that's the case, maybe we could discuss setting -O2 as a
> > distro-wide default setting?
>
> It drops asserts and docstrings. Some code require both to function, hence
> defaulting to this would be dangerous.
>

Yeah I guess so :D
Thanks for the clarification!


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