[Python-Dev] first post introduction and question regarding lto

[Victor Stinner]

2017-08-09 11:22 GMT+02:00 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
> What are the reasons it is ignored?  IIRC some compilers have buggy LTO
> support and it can lead to crashes during compilation.

Issues with LTO:
http://bugs.python.org/issue28032
http://bugs.python.org/issue28605

But since --with-lto is now an opt-in option, I don't why it should
ignored when PGO is not used?

Victor