[Python-Dev] Python's footprint

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

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Hello!

I've been thinking about ways to reduce python's footprint, so we'd be
able to include the interpreter in environments requiring reduced
applications. One of the tests I've done was to remove every inlined
documentation. Please, take a look at the results using a stripped
binary of python 2.2:

With inline docs:

-rwxrwxr-x   1 niemeyer niemeyer   634452 Nov  8 17:05 python

Without inline docs:

-rwxrwxr-x   1 niemeyer niemeyer   576852 Nov  8 17:12 python

It means that about 10% of python's executable is documentation. Now I'm
wondering if something like a DOCSTRING("foo") macro would be valid in
that case. If the user disabled it trough --disable-doc, for example,
DOCSTRING() would return "".

Thanks!

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Gustavo Niemeyer

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