Re: Handling --enable-experimental-jit in Python 3.13

[Victor Stinner]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 8:23 PM Miro Hrončok  wrote:
> Python 3.13 has an experimental JIT compiler:
> https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.13.html#experimental-jit-compiler
>
> Enabling it is a configure (hence build-time) option.
>
> How do we handle this in Fedora?
> We can keep it disabled, as it is experimental.

I concur with that.
> We can enable it, but be ready to revert if it causes problems.
> We can add yet another build variant, but we already have 4 of those
>
> (regular, debug, freethreading, freethreading-debug), so I'd rather not make it
> 6 (or 8, if we include freethreading+jit combinations). I don't know yet if it
> would be co-installable.

I don't think it's worth it.

Moreover, it doesn't build on Fedora 39 with clang-17, since Python
3.13 currently requires exactly clang-16.

Victor