On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 06:05:42PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> ### File types (and bytecode caches)
>
> The orthogonal dimension is the file type. Python standard library
> contains directories with both "extension modules" (written in C
> (usually) and compiled to `*.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.
> Solution 4: ZIP the entire standard library
> (...)
> Nevertheless, this might (in theory) **save 17.8 MiB / 47 %**.
It's my favorite option. Almost 50% smaller is quite good! It would be
very efficient to have such disk space gain!
Using a ZIP file for the stdlib is commonly suggested solution
Hello Fedora!
In Python Maint, we sat down and we came up with several ideas how to minimize
the filesystem footprint of Python. Unfortunately, the result is horribly long,
sorry about that.
Please, share your feedback, additional solutions, comments etc.
Version with formatting and pictures
