Defining VCL-like framework for Python

[Alexander Staubo]

In article <374A0170.3D815B39 at palladion.com>, tseaver at palladion.com 
says...
> Minor correction to an excellent summary of the VCL:
[nip]
> To be fair, that amortizes out pretty nicely (your code compiles down amazingly
> far, and there is very little overhead for adding additional forms, with
> gillions of controls each, because the VCL is already compiled in).

Furthermore Delphi 4 supports "packages", a nifty but actually pretty 
hackish way of compiling components (including the whole VCL) into DLLs 
and transparently linking to those. There's surprisingly little overhead, 
size and performancewise, in using packages. A small Delphi app can 
compile to just ~20K this way.

Of course, the whole VCL measures a good 1.5MB. Fortunately you can skim 
your distribution for unnecessary packages (eg., the DB packages if your 
app does not use DB components).

Good summary, though. All in all there's a surprising number of Delphi 
programmers in this forum :-)

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