Reid Kleckner wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >>> 32-bit; gcc 4.0.3 >>> >>> +-------------+---------------+---------------+----------------------+ | >>> Binary size | CPython 2.6.4 | CPython 3.1.1 | Unladen Swallow r988 | >>> +=============+===============+===============+======================+ | >>> Release | 3.8M | 4.0M | 74M | >>> +-------------+---------------+---------------+----------------------+ | >> This is positively humongous. Is there any way to shrink these numbers >> dramatically (I'm talking about the release builds)? Large executables or >> libraries may make people anxious about the interpreter's memory >> efficiency; and they will be a nuisance in many situations (think making >> standalone app bundles using py2exe or py2app). > > When we link against LLVM as a shared library, LLVM will still all be > loaded into memory, but it will be shared between all python > processes.
Even if you don't, it will *still* be shared, since the operating system will also share executables. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
