From 5b1de5ba95ad7448b39e748093ec26938b97585f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 12:06:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] sage.sh: disable byte-compiling to speed up (re)installs

---
 sage.sh | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sage.sh b/sage.sh
index 1a3795c..c9a7edd 100644
--- a/sage.sh
+++ b/sage.sh
@@ -13,12 +13,14 @@ export SAGE_DEBUG=no
 # won't use any vendored dependencies. Does not include the trailing
 # build directory.
 #
-# Includes options from,
+# Byte-compilation is disabled for now because it causes a 20x slowdown
+# in the edit-compile loop:
 #
-#   https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/40485
+#   https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson-python/issues/820
 #
 sage-meson-setup() {
     meson setup \
+	  --python.bytecompile=-1 \
 	  --python.install-env=prefix \
 	  --prefix="${HOME}/.local" \
 	  --wrap-mode=nofallback \
-- 
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