[Python-Dev] buildbot's are needlessly compiling -O0 (original) (raw)

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Sun Nov 24 15:12:48 CET 2013

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 24 Nov 2013 17:15, "Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

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? The main problem is that doing so would disable testgdb. Humans don't run gdb on those binaries, but the test suite does.

Is there a danger that the code tested under GDB is not tested in "natural environment" for pythons?

anatoly t.

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