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Re: Python init

From: Steve Lamb <grey(at)dmiyu.org>
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 04:22:27 EDT

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Nothing was dropped from Perl. It seems that the main problem
> concerning FreeBSD is that Perl was growing quite fast (e.g. more
> and more features, not needed in the FreeBSD base), and of course,
> installing an incomplete version of Perl would lead to problems.
> See <http://kerneltrap.org/node/178>.

Huh. I was curious to see how Python would fair. However the 2.5.1 sources are 52Mb. One of the complaints was that Perl's sources were up to 48Mb. On the other hand Perl 5.8.8 on Debian has an installed size of 13Mb while Python comes in at 9Mb. So seems to be potaeto, potahto.

Wonder if something like lua would work better than either of those? Of course one runs into the problem that lua is very spartan so many common operations would have to be written in C for lua to call.

Hmm, just out of boredom...

dash weighs in at 164kb

bash weighs in at 1.6Mb

zsh comes in at 10.4Mb...

Huh, interesting that zsh comes in at about 1Mb more than Python.

Do you need help?

And some further boredom...

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
grey      6452  0.0  0.3   5172  2712 pts/2    S+   01:19   0:00 python
grey      6457  0.0  0.2   4024  2072 pts/5    Ss   01:19   0:00 /bin/zsh
grey      6456  0.0  0.2   3900  1764 pts/4    S+   01:19   0:00 sh # bash
grey      6454  0.0  0.1   3788  1176 pts/3    S+   01:19   0:00 perl
grey      6464  0.0  0.0   1672   480 pts/5    S+   01:19   0:00 dash

     Ok, enough late night random spewage.  :)

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