| From: | Marc Culler |
| Date: | 21 Aug 2000 at 17:15:47 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Amiga python |
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:38:55AM -0500, Rudi Chiarito wrote:
> -rw-r----- 1 yax yax 551535 Aug 21 09:19 Amiga/python.00
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 yax yax 591828 Aug 21 09:18 python
...
> It still might not be totally accurate, as the Linux version might be
> including more modules. Under Linux, there are more symbols defined in
> config.h, as it's a "real" Unix system. Some would probably just activate
> alternative sections of code in conditional statements, but I suppose
> others would add more code (which isn't present in the Elate version).
Nonetheless, that makes me feel much better. I shouldn't have assumed
that python 1.6 would be about the same size as python 1.5. After all
that goes against all principles of software production. :^)
The sizes really are quite close! It is probably expecting too much to
hope that the binary for a monolithic application would be so much
smaller that the reduced load time would make up for the translation
time. In practice, when the application has been properly designed to
use tools that are only loaded when needed, I bet it really will work
that way.
- Marc
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