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May 2024
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They made Python faster with this compil...

Hussein Nasser
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<p>Fundamentals of Operating Systems Course https://oscourse.win Looks like fedora is compiling cpython with the -o3 flag, which does aggressive function inlining among other optimizations. This seems to improve python benchmarks performance by at most 1.16x at a cost of an extra 3MB in binary size (text segment). Although it does seem to slow down some b ... Show More
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