[Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Miles Bader]

John Kinson <address@hidden> writes:
> Why not Python?

Python doesn't seem to meet the goal of a svelte embedded language (or
at least the standard implementation doesn't).

I can't really speak for how well it matches Tom's other criteria, as I
don't know that much about it.

   $ size /usr/lib/libpython2.3.so.1
      text         data     bss     dec     hex filename
    924082       146624   12276 1082982  108666 /usr/lib/libpython2.3.so.1

Just for fun, here are a few others...:

   $ size /usr/lib/libguile.so.12
      text         data     bss     dec     hex filename
    549624        10180   26384  586188   8f1cc /usr/lib/libguile.so.12
   $ size /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8
      text         data     bss     dec     hex filename
   1109120        39648    8448 1157216  11a860 /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8
   $ size /usr/lib/liblua*50.so.5
      text         data     bss     dec     hex filename
    115689         1072       4  116765   1c81d /usr/lib/liblua50.so.5
     65320         2148       4   67472   10790 /usr/lib/liblualib50.so.5

Python, perl, and guile also have fairly hefty loadable libraries of
interpreted files; I'm not sure how much of it is actually necessary
though (at least guile and python won't start if you remove their
interpreted library directory).

-Miles
-- 
((lambda (x) (list x x)) (lambda (x) (list x x)))