Python: performance, footprint, multi-threading, etc.

[Stefan Franke]

On Fri, 21 May 1999 17:48:31 +0100, Tim Browse <timb at tdv.com> wrote:

>Memory Footprint
>
>I'm using Python on Windows, and the Python DLL is 550k.  I realise
>that's not huge for what Python does, but it is a sizeable amount of
>memory for my purposes, especially as it doesn't include memory needed
>to actually run Python scripts, etc.  What I'd like to know is, is it
>necessary for it to be this big?  i.e. are there language
>features/extensions that can be easily disabled which will reduce the
>footprint of the system?  If I decide to ship scripts as bytecode files,
>is it easy to remove the compiler from the distribution, leaving
>something that only executes byte-code files (i.e. the interpreter)?

Hi Tim,. 

you could try contact Raul Parra Bace. He has stripped off the Python
interpreter as far as possible for use in an embedded controller.

See http://www.abo.fi/~iporres/python/.

Stefan