A previous message (can't find it now to respond to it, sorry) indicated that static docstrings were responsible for a significant amount of sugar's runtime memory requirements.
The python interpreter's "-O -O" option specifically addresses this; it removes docstrings from the running image. This command-line option is probably appropriate for use for the sugar shell to allow us to preserve doc strings for interactive use and offline documentation, while removing the memory penalty and any disincentive for developers to properly document their APIs. Is anyone interested in changing the first line of /usr/bin/sugar-shell to '#!/usr/bin/python2.5 -O -O' and measuring the execution time / memory size savings attained? Bonus points if you can quantify the NAND space / speed tradeoff involved in using .pyo files, which are enabled by the first -O option, since by default we are deleting .pyo files to save space. Are the memory/speed improvements obtained with '-O -O' worth the cost? --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
