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

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Sun Nov 24 15:19:14 CET 2013

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 6:12 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:

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? --

What are you talking about? Have you actually looked at test_gdb before writing this email?

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