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atleastfornow.net is a personal blog at atleastfornow.net about programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Twisted Release manager discusses decision to continue supporting Python 2.7”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a HN thread on Fedora's -O3 Python build change. The post reports on whether Python compiler flags like -march and -mtune speed up builds, and the comment cites it as one such report.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Twisted Release manager discusses decision to continue supporting Python 2.72 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-10
What Hacker News says?
There are performance options[0] that enable PGO, LTO and bolt, and are known to speed things up, maybe more significantly than -march and -mtune. But I found one report[1] that says these compiler flags do (or did, some time ago) make a difference. [0] https://docs.python.org/3/using/configure.html#performance-o... [1] https://atleastfornow.net/posts/py3-enable-optimisations/
Comment linking /posts/py3-enable-optimisations/
on “Fedora 41 Looks to "-O3" Optimizations for Its Python Build”Submitted Twisted Release manager discusses decision to continue supporting Python 2.7 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted 50M Twisted Downloads Can't Be Wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussion