How big is python24.dll?

[A. B., Khalid]

For those how downloaded the new python, how big is it? I am speaking
of the DLL on Windows.

I am just curious; it would be interesting to compare the sizes of
earlier versions with this alpha release. These are the python
versions I know about:
[-] python21.dll, July, 26th, 2001, 693KB
[-] python23.dll, July, 29th, 2003, 953KB
[-] python24.dll, July, 10th, 2004, ?

[Chris]

The size of the v2.4 dll isn't really known right now. It's only the
first alpha which means that:

a: more stuff is going to be added
b: debugging code and other misc cruft is still in there.

We won't have a decent idea of the dll size until the first release
candidate later this year or early next year.

Chris

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:16:38 +0300, A. B., Khalid <ab***@hotmail.com> wrote:

For those how downloaded the new python, how big is it? I am speaking
of the DLL on Windows.

I am just curious; it would be interesting to compare the sizes of
earlier versions with this alpha release. These are the python
versions I know about:

[-] python21.dll, July, 26th, 2001, 693KB
[-] python23.dll, July, 29th, 2003, 953KB
[-] python24.dll, July, 10th, 2004, ?
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[Martin v. Löwis]

A. B., Khalid wrote:

[-] python24.dll, July, 10th, 2004, ?

1700k

Regards,
Martin

[Martin v. Löwis]

Chris wrote:

The size of the v2.4 dll isn't really known right now. It's only the
first alpha which means that:

a: more stuff is going to be added
b: debugging code and other misc cruft is still in there.

We won't have a decent idea of the dll size until the first release
candidate later this year or early next year.

b) is actually not true: the DLL does not contain debug code. The
alpha is very similar to the release wrt. the build process.

Regards,
Martin

[Martin v. Löwis]

Chris wrote:

The size of the v2.4 dll isn't really known right now. It's only the
first alpha which means that:

a: more stuff is going to be added
b: debugging code and other misc cruft is still in there.

We won't have a decent idea of the dll size until the first release
candidate later this year or early next year.

b) is actually not true: the DLL does not contain debug code. The
alpha is very similar to the release wrt. the build process.

Regards,
Martin

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello A.,

For those how downloaded the new python, how big is it? I am speaking
of the DLL on Windows.

I am just curious; it would be interesting to compare the sizes of
earlier versions with this alpha release. These are the python
versions I know about:
[-] python21.dll, July, 26th, 2001, 693KB
[-] python23.dll, July, 29th, 2003, 953KB
[-] python24.dll, July, 10th, 2004, ?

As people said it's 1.7MB.

If you care about disk space you can use upx to compress it.
Using --best --force the dll is now 776K and the regression test passes.

Bye.
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