On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Matej Stuchlik <mstuchli(a)redhat.com> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "drago01" <drago01(a)gmail.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 11:20:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Fedora 23 cloud image (and, for that matter, minimal
anything) bloat
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Matej Stuchlik <mstuchli(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> > [...]
> > When it comes to python3, one way to shave off ~9MiB from
python3-libs, and
> > possibly quite a bit more overall, would be to not install both
optimized
> > and
> > unoptimized bytecode, as we do now, but just the unoptimized one (the
> > performance
> > hit should be very small).
>
> How small is "very small" ? Have you measured it?
> I don't think 9MB of disk space is worth taking a performance hit for ...
The only difference between unoptimized and "optimized" bytecode should be
that
the latter is missing all docstrings, has disable asserts and sets
__debug__ to False,
I can't imagine this being significant, performance wise.
That said I do not plan on doing this before I measure the performance
difference and
discuss it on python-sig and python-linux.
Also note that it's possibly not just 9MB. For instance python3-boto, also
on this list, would
save 4.7MB, python3-pip 2.9MB. In general most python packages could go
down in size by ~20-30%.
Matt
However, this approach would break with Python 3.5 (where pyo data is
merged into *.pyc data), so I would consider it an ill-advised approach
anyway. It may work for F23, but it won't work for F24, and then we'd be
back to square one again.
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