Low level python

[Russo, Tom]

> > Anyone know how I can reduce the memory footprint of Python?
> 
> I've been playing with this for some time. One of the results of
> the resarch was that inline documentation is responsible for 10%
> of python's footprint. I've developed a patch to make those strings
> optional at compile time. The idea was well accepted, but for some
> reason the patch was not applied yet.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but isn't this what the -OO option does?

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