Enable running FLAML using the -O flag for the python interpreter

[bbudescu]

by implementing regular control flow without relying on exception semantics

Why are these changes needed?

The code of the user defined function the parameters of which FLAML is being used to optimize might make some expensive assertions which were designed to be turned off during the optimization process by passing the -O option as an interpreter flag.

Related issue number

Closes #981

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• [x] Checked whether Ray's execution runtime passes the compiler options to worker threads/processes. It appears to do so when running locally, on a single machine.

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[bbudescu]

Still need to check whether ray passes interpreter flags to workers in a remote setting, e.g., on an aws cluster.

[bbudescu]

Still need to check whether ray passes interpreter flags to workers in a remote setting, e.g., on an aws cluster.

Did it and it works by means of setting the PYTHONOPTIMIZE environment variable.

[bbudescu]

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[sonichi]

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