[issue2506] Add mechanism to disable optimizations

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

[Victor]
> Oh, another option to solve the .pyc file issue is to *not* 
> write .pyc files if the peephole optimizer is disabled. 
> If you disable an optimizer, you probably don't care of performances.

That is an inspired idea and would help address one of the possible problems that could be caused by a new on/off switch.

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