Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone building Python --without-doc-strings?

Why don't you compile using python -OO and distribute only .pyo code? Victor 2013/1/27 Kristján Valur Jónsson :

We (CCP) are certainly compiling python without docstrings for our embedded platforms (that include the PS3) Anyone using python as en engine to be used by programs and not users will appreciate the deletion of unneeded memory. K

-----Original Message----- From: Python-Dev [mailto:python-dev-bounces+kristjan=ccpgames.com@python.org] On Behalf Of R. David Murray Sent: 27. janúar 2013 00:38 To: python-dev@python.org Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone building Python --without-doc-strings?

On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:19:32 +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

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On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:03:59 +0100 Stefan Krah wrote:

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Stefan Krah wrote:

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I'm not sure how accurate the output is for measuring these things, but according to ``ls'' and ``du'' the option is indeed quite worthless:

./configure CFLAGS="-Os -s" LDFLAGS="-s" && make 1.8M Jan 26 16:36 python ./configure --without-doc-strings CFLAGS="-Os -s" LDFLAGS="-s" && make 1.6M Jan 26 16:33 python

The original contribution *was* in fact aiming for "10% smaller", see:

http://docs.python.org/release/2.3/whatsnew/node20.html

So apparently people thought it was useful.

After a bit of digging, I found the following discussions: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-November/018444.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-January/019392.html http://bugs.python.org/issue505375

Another reason for accepting the patch seemed to be that it introduced the Py_DOCSTR() macros, which were viewed as helpful for other reasons (some people talked about localizing docstrings).

I would point out that if 200 KB is really a big win for someone, then Python (and especially Python 3) is probably not the best language for them.

It is also ironic how the executable size went up since then (from 0.6 to more than 1.5 MB) :-)

200K can make a difference. It does on the QNX platform, for example, where there is no virtual memory. It would be nice to reduce that executable size, too....but I'm not volunteering to try (at least not yet) :)

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