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Clean up the readme text around PGO a bit. (GH-6538)
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Profile Guided Optimization
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PGO takes advantage of recent versions of the GCC or Clang compilers. If ran,
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``make profile-opt`` will do several steps.
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PGO takes advantage of recent versions of the GCC or Clang compilers. If used,
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either via ``configure --enable-optimizations`` above or by manually running
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``make profile-opt`` regardless of configure flags it will do several steps.
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First, the entire Python directory is cleaned of temporary files that may have
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resulted in a previous compilation.
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Then, an instrumented version of the interpreter is built, using suitable
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compiler flags for each flavour. Note that this is just an intermediary step
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and the binary resulted after this step is not good for real life workloads, as
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compiler flags for each flavour. Note that this is just an intermediary step.
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The binary resulting from this step is not good for real life workloads as
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it has profiling instructions embedded inside.
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After this instrumented version of the interpreter is built, the Makefile will

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