#15062 Benchmark various defaults for PEX compression for internal PEXes Issue created by stuhood Pants uses lots of PEXes "internally", which are never exported for users to consume. Since these are implementation details, we have free-rein to choose an internal-default PEX compression level... and some values can make a considerable difference in performance. To experiment/adjust for "internal only", logic similar to the logic for PEX's

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setting could be added, which set a default compression value for internal use: pants/src/python/pants/backend/python/util_rules/pex.py Lines 196 to 198 in </pantsbuild/pants/commit/902d3acb84c1b64c53c05e882200e4d578884c03|902d3ac> pantsbuild/pants