From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12231 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Nov 2003 23:34:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5966 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2003 23:34:29 -0000 From: Toby Dickenson Reply-To: tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com To: Alastair Tse , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:34:28 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1068662803.18867.134.camel@huggins.eng.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1068662803.18867.134.camel@huggins.eng.cam.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311132334.28834.tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] python-2.3.2 testing required X-Archives-Salt: 4600aecd-a475-4770-9005-5026692b7d59 X-Archives-Hash: 2c4da041389e7e1e895b8987cb300546 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 18:46, Alastair Tse wrote: > I need some more testing for python-2.3.2 before it is released into > ~x86. This update is looking good here. Fine work. 8) > 2. run: emerge -u portage python note that -u will update alot of things with ~x86 that you might not want. > UCS4 uses significantly more memory than UCS2. I have compared ucs2 (with the ebuild in portage) and ucs4 (with hacking that ebuild to include the --enable-unicode=ucs4 configure switch). I compared: 1. The sizes of a newly started interpreter using the RES column on 'top' 2. The size of a "btdownloadheadless" process seeding a knoppix cd image 3. The size of the .tbz2 binary package. The empty interpreters are of identical size. The bittorrent process is considerably *smaller* with ucs4, and the tbz2 files are largely unchanged in size. Numbers below. IMHO thats a clear but suprising win for ucs4. Lets use it always. > Plan for Python's Future > ======================== Portage has a number of packages that still need 2.2 but reference #!/usr/bin/python. For example, rdiff-backup. The distutil eclass has support for forcing /usr/bin/python2.1 (thanks to zope), but I cant see any way to force 2.2. am I overlooking something? ucs2 ucs4 empty interpreter 2928 2928 btdownloadheadless 6076 5464, 5420 tbz2 size 5954517 5951807 -- Toby Dickenson -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list