Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:30 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:05 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>> But I did notice one odd thing that I wasn't fully aware of until now
>>> ... the byte-code of the built-in modules was present, complete with doc
>>> strings ... for example;
>>
>> Yes, we are aware of this one and have a fix on the line:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460334
>>
>> There has been a thread recently on devel or sugar ml about it.
>>
>> If you could help us quantify how much this could help, it would be
>> much appreciated.
>
> Here's a quick reference to that previous thread:
>  http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-August/007969.html
>
> I guess I meant to turn on -OO on joyride, but didn't quite get around
> to it; it would require patching/forking our numpy and python, and
> then tweaking the sugar-shell startup to use -OO.  It looked like this
> would save ~6M, but I don't know yet how much extra NAND space it
> would take for the .pyo files.  I might be able to experiment and make
> a build or two on the faster branch to quantify this.

Would be great if you could look into it. I guess we could drop the
.pyc files and use the .pyo instead.

Thanks,

Tomeu