I don't think there's any need to keep this feature. I hope we have better ways to profile function and method calls now than we did when this code was submitted.

Jeremy

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:34 AM Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 25, 2016, at 1:28 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to completely remove the feature to be able to implement
> further optimizations.

This seems reasonable to me. I've never used or needed this special build; StackOverflow has no mention of it; and a Google search comes up nearly empty. That said, it might be worthwhile to check with Jeremy to get his thoughts before removing his code.

Raymond