On May 28, 2015 at 2:33:25 PM, Carl Meyer (c...@oddbird.net) wrote: > On 05/28/2015 11:52 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > [snip] > > Nevertheless, I would like to understand how Unix can manage to have a > > Python 3.4.3 binary at 4kb. Does that *really* have no external > > dependencies (other than the C library)? Are we really comparing like > > with like here? > > I don't know what Donald was looking at, but I'm not seeing anything > close to that 4k figure here. (Maybe he's on OS X, where framework > builds have a "stub" executable that just execs the real one?) > > On my Ubuntu Trusty system, the system Python 3.4 executable is 3.9M, > and the one I compiled myself from source, without any special options, > is almost 12M. (Not really sure what accounts for that difference - > Ubuntu system Python uses shared libraries for more stuff?) > > Carl > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/donald%40stufft.io >
The problem is I'm an idiot and did du -h against ``which python``, which of course resolved to the symlink of python that points to python3.4. The real executable on my OSX box is 2.6M (built using pyenv). --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
