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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?
Sure, the compile step will take a bit longer but that is dwarfed by the test time as it is:
It should dramatically decrease the turnaround latency for buildbot results.
-gps