Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Well... Speaking personally, I'd much rather stop shipping and > "supporting" such obscure build options. I'd like to hear about people > using production Pythons --without-doc-strings.
I'm not sure how accurate the output is for measuring these things, but according to ``ls'' and ``du'' the option is indeed quite worthless: ./configure CFLAGS="-Os -s" LDFLAGS="-s" && make $ du -h build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/ 24K build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/__pycache__ 3.9M build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/ $ ls -lh python 1.8M Jan 26 16:36 python $ ls -lh libpython3.4m.a 9.6M Jan 26 16:36 libpython3.4m.a =============================================================== ./configure --without-doc-strings CFLAGS="-Os -s" LDFLAGS="-s" && make $ du -h build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/ 24K build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/__pycache__ 3.8M build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.4/ $ ls -lh python 1.6M Jan 26 16:33 python $ ls -lh libpython3.4m.a 9.4M Jan 26 16:33 libpython3.4m.a Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ 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
