Thank you for your response. And I'm sorry about ignoring this. Gmail marked it as spam.
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 6:20 PM Ned Deily <[email protected]> wrote: > > We currently do not use those options to build the binaries for the > python.org macOS installers. The main reason is that the Pythons we provide > are built to support a wide-range of macOS releases and to do so safely we > build the binaries on the oldest version of macOS supported by that > installer. So, for example, the 10.9+ installer variant is built on a 10.9 > system. Some of the optimization features either aren't available or are > less robust on older build tools. It makes sense. > And I believe it is more important for the python.org macOS installers to > continue to provide a single installer that is usable on many systems and can > be used in a broad range of applications and by a broad range of users rather > than trying to optimize performance for a specific application: you can > always build your own Python. > > As far as what other distributors of Python for macOS do, what we do > shouldn't necessarily constrain them. I don't see any problem with Homebrew > optimizing for a particular user's installation. I see that MacPorts, > another distributor of Python on macOS, provides a non-default variant that > uses --enable-optimizations. > > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/lang/python37/Portfile > > -- > Ned Deily > [email protected] -- [] > -- Inada Naoki <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GN7AYLJGZKS3HEINE5AU7WMK3RHAYBHN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
