Community perspectives on the JIT: experiences, expectations, and concerns

[brettcannon]

@barry-scott

I’m wondering about Fedora in particular

Building the JIT with pre-built stencils

Hello. As a follow-up from PEP 774: Removing the LLVM requirement for JIT builds - #36 by hroncok I’d like to be able to build CPython with pre-built JIT stencils. Pretty much: Build the stencils on a platform with the required LLVM version (say, on Fedora). Save the stencils (per architecture, per build type (optimized/debug)). Use the stencils from above on a different platform without the required LLVM version (say, on RHEL) by dropping them to the out of tree build directory. I was able …