Re: [PATCH RESEND] Documentation/sphinx: prevent generation of .pyc files in the source tree

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:18:05 +0200
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> wrote:

> Considering the small amount of python code to compile (assuming sphinx
> itself has .pyc around), the impact on build is neglible.

Hey...don't you know that performance-impacting patches need benchmarks?

Sphinx-only htmldocs build before:

	real	2m26.063s
	user	2m19.184s
	sys	0m5.429s

After:

	real	2m26.342s
	user	2m20.445s
	sys	0m5.611s

You owe me 0.279 seconds :)

(Applied, thanks).

jon