Larry Hastings wrote:
> Also, how much would I be
> able to trim away if I recompiled it myself? Is a lot of it native
> implementations of Python libraries that I might not care about
> including, or is it all fundamental VM stuff that couldn't possibly
be
> removed?
In Pythons config.c file Yo
Larry Hastings wrote:
Can someone tell me what made it 80% larger?
python24.dll includes many of the extension modules that were separate
.pyd files in 2.3, namely _csv, _sre, _symtable, _winreg, datetime,
mmap, and parser, i.e. all extension modules that don't require specific
libraries. Further
In my experience, when built with the same compiler (gcc 3.3.3) the size
of the python library file (libpython2.x.a on unix machines) hasn't
changed much between 2.3, 2.4, and current CVS:
-rw-r--r-- 1 jepler jepler 950426 Mar 31 21:37 libpython2.3.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jepler jepler 1002158 Mar 31 21:
I finally got 'round to installing Python 2.4. I'm planning on using
Python for downloadable software, where every kilobyte counts and
smaller is definitely better. Imagine my surprise when I looked up
python24.dll and found SWEET JUMPING CHRISTMAS it's ballooned up to
1.8MB!
This isn't a deal-k
