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Bug 1724996

Summary:	Speed up Python with -fno-semantic-interposition
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Petr Viktorin (pviktori) <pviktori>
Component:	python3	Assignee:	Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Lukáš Zachar <lzachar>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Lenka Špačková <lkuprova>
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	akamra, bgray, carlwgeorge, cgoncalves, cstratak, drepper, jkejda, kabbott, lmanasko, perfbz, torsava, vstinner
Target Milestone:	rc	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Target Release:	8.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	python3-3.6.8-24.el8	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	Documented in Bug 1847416	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2020-11-04 01:30:33 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1738699
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Comment 1 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2019-06-28 08:47:09 UTC

We're not prioritizing this issue at the moment.

Comment 14 Charalampos Stratakis 2019-07-11 15:31:46 UTC

another one: https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=22617299

Comment 18 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2019-08-13 13:14:42 UTC

We got a suggestion to link to libpython.a statically, rather than dynamically.
We should do that, but the team's current priorities are with FIPS patches, so this will take some time.

Comment 19 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2019-10-08 13:05:20 UTC

This is a big change and may not be backwards compatible across all uses of Python.
We're preparing a Fedora system-wide change for this.
If that goes well, we will use it in the Python 3.8 module.
After that we can talk about updating the system Python in RHEL 8.

Comment 22 Karl Abbott 2020-01-28 14:23:54 UTC

Acked from a product management perspective. Looking forward to getting this in RHEL.

Cheers,
Karl

Comment 35 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 01:30:33 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: python3 security and bug fix update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4433