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Add maxperf build profile (#3608)
## Proposed Changes Add a new Cargo compilation profile called `maxperf` which enables more aggressive compiler optimisations at the expense of compilation time. Some rough initial benchmarks show that this can provide up to a 25% reduction to run time for CPU bound tasks like block processing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15jHuZe7lLHhZq9Nw8kc6EL0Qh_N_YAYqkW2NQ_Afmtk/edit The numbers in that spreadsheet compare the `consensus-context` branch from #3604 to the same branch compiled with the `maxperf` profile using: ``` PROFILE=maxperf make install-lcli ``` ## Additional Info The downsides of the maxperf profile are: - It increases compile times substantially, which will particularly impact low-spec hardware. Compiling `lcli` is about 3x slower. Compiling Lighthouse is about 5x slower on my 5950X: 17m 38s rather than 3m 28s. As a result I think we should not enable this everywhere by default. - **Option 1**: enable by default for our released binaries. This gives the majority of users the fastest version of `lighthouse` possible, at the expense of slowing down our release CI. Source builds will continue to use the default `release` profile unless users opt-in to `maxperf`. - **Option 2**: enable by default for source builds. This gives users building from source an edge, but makes them pay for it with compilation time. I think I would prefer Option 1. I'll try doing some benchmarking to see how long a maxperf build of Lighthouse would take on GitHub actions. Credit to Nicholas Nethercote for documenting these options in the Rust Performance Book: https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/build-configuration.html.
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When using the makefile the set of features used for building can be controlled with
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the environment variable `CROSS_FEATURES`. See [Feature
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Flags](./installation-source.md#feature-flags) for available features.
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## Compilation Profiles
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When using the makefile the build profile can be controlled with the environment variable
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`CROSS_PROFILE`. See [Compilation Profiles](./installation-source.md#compilation-profiles) for
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available profiles.
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