[Python-Dev] FreeBSD-9.0 bot running --without-doc-strings

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:07:14 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:55:12 +0100
> > Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've subverted the build master authority on the FreeBSD-9.0 bot by
> >> exporting with_doc_strings=no. This is to test #16143 and #10156.
> >
> > Well... Speaking personally, I'd much rather stop shipping and
> > "supporting" such obscure build options. I'd like to hear about people
> > using production Pythons --without-doc-strings.
> 
> I was going to suggest that folks like the PyMite developers might use
> it to create versions that run in severely constrained environments,
> but it looks like they wrote their interpreter from scratch instead.
> 
> On the other hand, I've definitely heard at least a few people talking
> about using -OO to drop docstrings as a technique to reduce memory
> consumption. Some of these failures would likely show up there as
> well.

Using -OO is far less extreme than building your own Python with
docstrings disabled. And the test suite already passes with -OO:
http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Mountain%20Lion%20Optimized%20%5BSB%5D%203.x

Regards

Antoine.