[Python-Dev] --with-valgrind and --enable-shared

[Andrea Griffini]

Hello,

does it have any sense for a linux distribution (arch to be specific) to
provide default Python package compiled with valgrind support? I thought
this flag was just about silencing false positives generated by valgrind
(in other words a workaround for "bugs" of another software) and useful
only when developing Python itself or C extensions.

The same distribution also compiles by default to a shared library and this
has a quite noticeable impact on performance on x64 (surprisingly for me)
for CPU bound processing; in a few test cases I measured valgrind+shared
Python running at 66% the speed of plain ./configure && make Python on my
system. Is this setting reasonable for general users?

If they are good defaults, why aren't them the default?

Andrea Griffini
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