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ccp4 README: BINARY.setup py-compile phase is also slow

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Byte-compiling the bundled Python env writes thousands of .pyc files on
network storage; whole install budget on Ra is about an hour.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -48,8 +48,11 @@ hand-downloaded tarball into the distfiles dir under the `name:` given in
The `install` step untars 3.7 GB into ~15-20 GB of small files on shared
/opt/psi storage: the tar alone runs 10-30 min with no output (gzip is
single-threaded, small-file creation on network storage is the
bottleneck), and `BINARY.setup` afterwards walks the whole installation
for several more minutes. Watch progress from a second shell:
bottleneck). `BINARY.setup` afterwards is just as bad — it walks the
whole installation patching paths and then **byte-compiles the bundled
Python environment** ("compiling py-files"), thousands of tiny .pyc
writes on network storage; expect another 15-30+ min. Budget roughly an
hour for the whole install on Ra. Watch progress from a second shell:
```bash
watch -n 30 'du -sh /opt/psi/MX/ccp4/9.0/'