On 11/8/19 5:16 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:09:55 PM MST Martin Kolman wrote:
>> On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 19:41 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>
>>>> Python 3 traditionally in Fedora was built with a shared library
>>>> libpython3.?.so and the final binary was dynamically linked against
>>>> that shared library. This change is about creating the static library
>>>> and linking the final python3 binary against it,
>>>
>>> I oppose this change, because this is yet another size increase:
>> Up to ~27% speed increase for extra ~3.4 MB storage used seems like a good
>> trade-off to me...
>
>>>
>>>> As a negative side effect, when both libpython3.8.so and
>>>> /usr/bin/python3.8 are installed, the filesystem footprint will be
>>>> slightly increased (libpython3.8.so on Python 3.8.0, x86_64 is ~3.4M).
>>>
>>> and while:
>>>
>>>
>>>> OTOH only a very small amount of packages will depend on
>>>> libpython3.8.so.
>>>
>>> in practice, that does not help because some of those packages are
>>> installed by default, e.g., the ones you mentioned being installed by
>>> default even on the Docker image:
>>>
>>>
>>>> *'''libcomps'''
>>>> *'''libdnf'''
>>>> *'''vim'''
>>>
>>> but there are more, such as gdb, libreoffice, krita, boost, etc. that are
>>>
>>> installed on various live images, and calamares, which is popular on
>>> remixes. So all those images will be bloated as a result of your code
>>> duplicating change.
>>>
>>>
>>> In addition:
>>>
>>>
>>>> By applying this change, libpython's namespace will be separated from
>>>> Python's, so '''C extension which are still linked to libpython'''
>>>> might experience side effects or break.
>>>
>>> so compatibility is an issue too.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kevin Kofler
>>>
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> Anyone that has ever worked with CD images understands that every megabyte
> counts.
>
I would almost always take speed over disk size.
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