Gentoolto: use built-in python lto/pgo?

[Hello71]

I used these options with standard Gentoo ebuild:

export PROFILE_TASK="-m test -j $(nproc) --pgo-extended"
EXTRA_ECONF="--with-lto --enable-optimizations"

[InBetweenNames]

I'm all for enabling PGO via an easy way. What does --pgo-extended do?

--with-lto just manually adds -flto to CFLAGS, without any parallelization (may have changed in 3.9)

[Hello71]

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/configure.ac#L1286
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Makefile.pre.in#L261

[Hello71]

regarding the parallelization, I think it is intended upstream. they explicitly set lto-partition=none.

[telans]

I did a couple tests regarding pgo for python-3.8.5-r1

Using emerge -uDvpU --with-bdeps=y @world:

| | -pgo | +pgo | --pgo-extended |
|---------------------|--------|--------|----------------|
| time | 14.56s | 13.03s | 12.48s |
| speedup
vs. -pgo | 0% | 11.74% | 16.67% |

For --pgo-extended the following was using in the ebuild:

if use pgo; then
    emake profile-opt PROFILE_TASK="-m test -x test_gdb test_compileall -j $(nproc) --pgo-extended"
else

The full command used was time for i in {1..10}; do emerge -uDvpU --with-bdeps=y @world; done averaged over three consecutive runs.

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dev-lang/python-3.8.5-r1::lto-overlay was built with the following:
USE="gdbm libressl ncurses pgo readline sqlite ssl xml -bluetooth -build -examples -hardened -ipv6 -test -tk -wininst" ABI_X86="(64)"
CFLAGS="-march=znver2 -O3 -flto=17 -flto-compression-level=9 -fgraphite-identity -floop-nest-optimize -fipa-pta -fno-semantic-interposition -fdevirtualize-at-ltrans -fno-signed-zeros -fno-trapping-math -fassociative-math -freciprocal-math -fno-math-errno -ffinite-math-only -fno-rounding-math -fno-signaling-nans -fcx-limited-range -fexcess-precision=fast -pipe -fno-finite-math-only -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -fwrapv -ffat-lto-objects"

[InBetweenNames]

@telans Thanks for investigating -- it seems like this is an easy way to get a nice performance boost.