Martin v. Löwis wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Note that this does not mean that we should forget about memory >> consumption issues. It's just that if there's only marginal >> interest in certain special builds of Python, I don't see the >> requirement for the Python core developers to maintain them. > > Well, the cost of Unicode support is not so much in the algorithmic > part, but in the tables that come along with it. AFAICT, everything > but unicodectype is optional; that is 5KiB of code and 20KiB of data > on x86. Actually, the size of the code *does* matter, at a second > glance. Here are the largest object files in the Python code base > on my system (not counting dynamic modules): > > text data bss dec hex filename > 4845 19968 0 24813 60ed Objects/unicodectype.o > 22633 2432 352 25417 6349 Objects/listobject.o > 29259 1412 152 30823 7867 Objects/classobject.o > 20696 11488 4 32188 7dbc Python/bltinmodule.o > 33579 740 0 34319 860f Objects/longobject.o > 34119 16 288 34423 8677 Python/ceval.o > 35179 2796 0 37975 9457 Modules/_sre.o > 26539 15820 416 42775 a717 Modules/posixmodule.o > 35283 8800 1056 45139 b053 Objects/stringobject.o > 50360 0 28 50388 c4d4 Python/compile.o > 68455 4624 440 73519 11f2f Objects/typeobject.o > 69993 9316 1196 80505 13a79 Objects/unicodeobject.o > > So it appears that dropping Unicode support can indeed provide > some savings. > > For reference, we also have an option to drop complex numbers: > > 9654 692 4 10350 286e Objects/complexobject.o
So why not drop that as well ? Note that I'm not saying that these switches are useless - of course they do allow to strip down the Python interpreter. I believe that only very few people are interested in having these options and it's fair enough to put the burden of maintaining these branches on them. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 21 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ 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
