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Feature request: Support --enable-pystats

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2/5
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45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
performance

Research direction

Start by inspecting config.ini handling and the existing debug, pgo, and lto options. Trace how those options affect CPython configuration, then add the corresponding stats behavior so the config can enable --enable-pystats; done means benchmark runs can use stats without a custom branch.

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Description

It is useful to be able to get stats from the various benchmark suites.
Currently that involves making a custom branch with stats enabled, and benchmarking that.
Since CPython's configure has a --enable-pystats it would be nice to be able to turn that on from the config file.

It would be great if the config.ini file had an option for stats, much as it already has options for debug, pgo and lto.

E.g.

# Turn on stats?
stats = False
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