[Python-Dev] first post introduction and question regarding lto (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Aug 9 05:22:22 EDT 2017

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 11:16:36 +0200 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

There is already a ./configure --with-lto flag, why not using it?

I'm using --with-lto without PGO for months, I never noticed that the option is fully ignored!

What are the reasons it is ignored? IIRC some compilers have buggy LTO support and it can lead to crashes during compilation.

Regards

Antoine.

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