I would like to run Python scripts on an embedded MIPS Linux platform having only 2 MiB of flash ROM and 16 MiB of RAM for everything.
Current (2.5) stripped and gzipped (I am going to use a compressed filesystem) CPython binary, compiled with defaults on a i386/glibc Linux, results in 500 KiB of "flash". How to make the Python interpreter even smaller? - can I completely drop out lexical analysis of sourcecode and compilation to bytecode? is it relevant enough to the size of interpreter? - should I drop "useless" compiled-in modules? (what I need is a replacement for advanced bash scripting, being able to write more complex scripts and avoid forking tens of processes for things like searching filesystem, formating dates etc.) I don't want to re-invent the wheel, but all my attempts at finding Python for embedded systems ended in instructions for embedding Python in another program :-) Can you give me any information to start with? I would prefer stripping current version of Python rather than returning to a years-old (but smaller) version and remembering what of the new syntax/functionality to avoid. TIA, Milan _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
