[bug#47251] [core-updates] [patch] gnu: python: Enable optimizations.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ping!  :-)

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Hi Julien,
>
> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:
>
>>>>From c72e34aa0eb0db589557e047c5db0128273d5d12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
>> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 23:41:40 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: python: Enable optimizations.
>>
>> As a result, python execution time of scripts is decreased by 6 to 40%.
>>
>> gnu/packages/python (python-2.7)[arguments]: Add configure and make flags to
>> optimize the resulting python.
>
> LGTM!  Great that you found about these options.
>
> I wonder what can be done to reduce the package size.  On
> ‘core-updates’, we’re already stripping ELF binaries a bit more than on
> ‘master’.
>
> What does ‘size …/bin/python’ say?  Could it be there’s GIMPLE left in
> the executable or in libpython.so as a result of using -flto?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.