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On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 23:34, Toby Dickenson wrote: |
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> > 2. run: emerge -u portage python |
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> note that -u will update alot of things with ~x86 that you might not want. |
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True, although in theory, it works also if you mark them as stable. I've |
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been running python-2.3 on a stable box without any problems. YMMV. |
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> > UCS4 uses significantly more memory than UCS2. |
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> I have compared ucs2 (with the ebuild in portage) and ucs4 (with hacking that |
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> ebuild to include the --enable-unicode=ucs4 configure switch). I compared: |
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> 1. The sizes of a newly started interpreter using the RES column on 'top' |
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> 2. The size of a "btdownloadheadless" process seeding a knoppix cd image |
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> 3. The size of the .tbz2 binary package. |
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> The empty interpreters are of identical size. The bittorrent process is |
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> considerably *smaller* with ucs4, and the tbz2 files are largely unchanged in |
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> size. Numbers below. IMHO thats a clear but suprising win for ucs4. Lets use |
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> it always. |
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That is rather suprising. I could only explain that by predicting that |
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btdownloadheadless doesn't use any unicode objects at all. As I said |
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before, I think the real test case would be XML parsing. |
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But hopefully this weekend I could formulate some tests to run to get |
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something more "scientific". But it might be that my initial |
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observations were off. |
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> > Plan for Python's Future |
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> > ======================== |
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> Portage has a number of packages that still need 2.2 but reference |
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> #!/usr/bin/python. For example, rdiff-backup. The distutil eclass has support |
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> for forcing /usr/bin/python2.1 (thanks to zope), but I cant see any way to |
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> force 2.2. am I overlooking something? |
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Zope is a special case because it is not supported if you run it on |
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anything about 2.1. I'm not too familiar with Zope, so maybe some others |
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can chime in. As for packages that don't work with 2.3, that needs to be |
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fixed. There is a bug open now that people can report apps that don't |
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work with 2.3 either because 2.2 is hardcoded or they just need to be |
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patched. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33372 |
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Cheers, |
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Alastair 'liquidx' Tse |
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