Disabled -prebind again when linking the interpreter on MacOSX. It caused
a serious slowdown when loading dynamic modules that depend on large shared
libraries or frameworks.
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 0b893a5..06c4048 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1164,11 +1164,10 @@
# -u _PyMac_Error is needed to pull in the mac toolbox glue, which is
# not used by the core itself but which needs to be in the core so
# that dynamically loaded extension modules have access to it.
- # -prebind causes the executable to assume dynamic libraries are at their
- # preferred address, which speeds up startup. We specify it here
- # in stead of in LDFLAGS because it does not seem to work for bundle
- # plugins (as of OSX 10.2).
- LINKFORSHARED="$extra_undefs -framework System -prebind"
+ # -prebind is no longer used, because it actually seems to give a
+ # slowdown in stead of a speedup, maybe due to the large number of
+ # dynamic loads Python does.
+ LINKFORSHARED="$extra_undefs -framework System"
if test "$enable_framework"
then
LINKFORSHARED="$LINKFORSHARED -framework Python"