[Python-Dev] Anyone building Python --without-doc-strings? (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Sat Jan 26 17:03:59 CET 2013

Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:

I'm not sure how accurate the output is for measuring these things, but according to ls'' and du'' the option is indeed quite worthless:

./configure CFLAGS="-Os -s" LDFLAGS="-s" && make 1.8M Jan 26 16:36 python ./configure --without-doc-strings CFLAGS="-Os -s" LDFLAGS="-s" && make 1.6M Jan 26 16:33 python

The original contribution was in fact aiming for "10% smaller", see:

http://docs.python.org/release/2.3/whatsnew/node20.html

So apparently people thought it was useful.

Stefan Krah

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