Comment 30 for bug 1638695

I have managed to prepare the static build without PIE on top the latest artful version [1].

I have added the results to the same spreadsheet. What I've found particularly interesting are the results of the python_startup & python_startup_no_site tests. In subsequent runs (the result in the spreadsheet was for the second run of the testsuite) the improvement is really significant.

I believe this is thanks to the fact that the relative addresses don't need to be patched before running the binary.

In case of the rest of the tests: there are some small improvements as well as some minor performance decreases.

[1] ppa:dgadomski/pyperf (python2.7 - 2.7.14-2ubuntu3~lp1638695~4)