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[Gerhard Haering]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:53:30PM +0530, km wrote:
> Hi Gerhard,
> ya have tried stripping python2.4 it came to 952K.  now does the size
> diference before and after strip affect the runtime of a python program ? 

No, it only saves some space on disk. The interpreter doesn't need any less
memory at runtime just because the executable size is less now. The OS wouldn't
load the symbols into memory, unless they're used for debugging, anyway.

-- Gerhard
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