Milan Krcmar wrote: > Current (2.5) stripped and gzipped (I am going to use a compressed > filesystem) CPython binary, compiled with defaults on a i386/glibc > Linux, results in 500 KiB of "flash". How to make the Python > interpreter even smaller?
In my experience, the biggest gain can be obtained by dropping the rarely-used CJK codecs (for Asian languages). That should sum up to almost 800K (uncompressed), IIRC. After that, I once had to strip down the binary even more, and found out (by guesswork and inspection of map files) that there is no other low hanging fruit. By carefully selecting which modules to link in, I was able to reduce of another 300K or so, but nothing really incredible. I would also suggest -ffunction-sections in these cases, but you might already know that. Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ 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
