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Author eric.snow
Recipients BTaskaya, Mark.Shannon, brandtbucher, brett.cannon, eric.snow, gvanrossum, indygreg, larry, lemburg, methane, nascheme, ronaldoussoren
Date 2021-08-30.22:49:30
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 2:22 PM Guido van Rossum <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> I propose to only opt in by default in **PGO builds**. After all what we're doing is another extreme optimization.
>
> It should always be possible to opt in using some -X flag (e.g. to debug the freeze import loader) and it should also always be possible to opt *out* (for those cases where you want to edit an installed stdlib module in-place in anger).
>
> I don't know how the -X mechanism works exactly but probably we could make the spelling
>
>   python -X freeze=on|off
>
> with a dynamic default.

+1 to all that
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