If that checkbox is checked, then the calls to the functions registered in the uplink module will go to the uplink module and the functions with the same name defined in another uplink or a server module will be ignored.
So your production environment is already using that code.
In my case I had the production slowing down a lot and failing randomly. It was slower because functions that are usually running on the server were running on my pc. It was failing randomly because I was running a module under development that often had something broken (see here)
The next day (or minute) I created this feature request.
Are you able to change the name of the functions registered in the dev environment?
And remove the decorator from all the functions that you are not using?