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Hi! I work on the Python distributions uv uses. Performance is really important to us and we're on the bleeding edge of performant Python builds. Our distributions use profile guided optimization (PGO) as well as post-link optimizations (BOLT). From my understanding, these are not enabled by pyenv by default because they significantly increase build times. It's possible there are some platform-specific build benefits, but I'd be surprised if it was significant.

I can set up some benchmarks comparing to pyenv on a couple common platforms – lately I've just been focused on benchmarking changes to CPython itself.




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