Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Stripping _objc.so

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Sunday, Dec 22, 2002, at 19:48 Europe/Amsterdam, bb...@ma... wrote:

> On Sunday, Dec 22, 2002, at 13:07 US/Eastern, Just van Rossum wrote:
> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>
>>> - setup.py: By default strip the .so files, this seriously reduces
>>> the size of module objc._objc.
>>
>> Is this such a good idea? Btw. bundlebuilder/buildapp.py has a --strip
>> option to strip all binaries when building standalone apps (indeed
>> helps a lot, size-wise), but I wouldn't do this do this for a library
>> install. Does it have any performance advantage to strip objc._objc?
>
> For the installer package-- for the version that goes in 
> site-packages-- I don't think stripping makes a huge difference.   It 
> will not significantly impact load times as the whole file is memory 
> mapped and the symbol table is basically just a big blob near the end. 
>  Nor will it affect runtime performance unless your system is 
> incredibly tight on RAM.
>
> The project builder copy files phases could be augmented to do the 
> strip, as well.

I forgot about stripping while building a '.app' bundle. I'll roll back 
this change.


Ronald