[niemeyer@conectiva.com: Re: [Python-Dev] Python's footprint]

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "NS" == Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca> writes:

    >> What's the current thinking about making docstrings optional?
    >> Does everybody agree on Gustavo's patch?

    NS> 10% space saving?  That doesn't seem to be worth the effort.
    NS> OTOH, I'm not dealing with any platforms that are memory
    NS> constrained right now.

Personally I don't care either for the same reasons.  I'll just note
that what Emacs used to do (maybe it still does, I dunno), is extract
all its inlined docstrings into a separate file which could be thrown
away if you didn't want to pay for the bloat.  All that complexity was
built in a time when 300KB or so of docstrings really could make a
huge difference for download times or storage resources.

-Barry