26 Jan
2013
26 Jan
'13
10:03 a.m.
Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org> wrote:
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. Stefan Krah