Austin Lamb added the comment:
Thanks Steve!
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Austin Lamb added the comment:
What are the next steps for this - anything else I can provide, or is someone
able to take a look at the Pull Request?
Thanks!
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Austin Lamb added the comment:
You're right to think that folding is a problem Steve, but thankfully my PR
does not enable COMDAT folding for that very reason :).
/OPT:ICF enables identical COMDAT folding, but surprisingly-to-me /OPT:REF
seems to still enable a small amount of foldi
Austin Lamb added the comment:
Ping - can anyone suggest either how ctypes does its exporting, or suggest
tests I could run to confirm if this change affects python code? The entire
test suite in the repo passes.
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I don't know much about how ctypes exposes stuff - are these exposed as DLL
exports? Or if not, how do they get exposed?
The linker will remove things it can't find a callsite for, but it leaves in
exported functions as of course those are by
Change by Austin Lamb :
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keywords: +patch
pull_requests: +22928
stage: -> patch review
pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24098
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New submission from Austin Lamb :
I noticed that CPython and the various libraries built out of the repo aren't
using the "/OPT:REF" linker optimization on Windows. This optimization allows
the linker to throw away dead/unreachable code, resulting in a substantial
decrease
