[Python-Dev] Unicode patches checked in (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:32:29 +0100

"Andrew M. Kuchling" wrote:

Fredrik Lundh writes: >didn't notice this before, but I just realized that after the >latest round of patches, the python15.dll is now 700k larger >than it was for 1.5.2 (more than twice the size). Most of that is due to Modules/unicodedata.c, which is 2.1Mb of source code, and produces a 632168-byte .o file on my Sparc. (Will some compiler systems choke on a file that large? Could we read database info from a file instead, or mmap it into memory?)

That is dues to the unicodedata module being compiled into the DLL statically. On Unix you can build it shared too -- there are no direct references to it in the implementation. I suppose that on Windows the same should be done... the question really is whether this is intended or not -- moving the module into a DLL is at least technically no problem (someone would have to supply a patch for the MSVC project files though).

Note that unicodedata is only needed by programs which do a lot of Unicode manipulations and in the future probably by some codecs too.

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