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They made Python faster with this compiler option

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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 benchmarks as well though not significantly. O1 - local register allocation, subexpression elimination O2 - Function inlining only small functions O3 - Agressive inlining, SMID 0:00 Intro 1:00 Fedora Linux gets Fast Python 5:40 What is Compiling? 9:00 Compiling with No Optimization 12:10 Compiling with -O1 15:30 Compiling with -O2 20:00 Compiling with -O3 23:20 Showing Numbers Backend Troubleshooting Course https://performance.husseinnasser.com

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