On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:09:55 PM MST Martin Kolman wrote:
On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 19:41 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Python 3 traditionally in Fedora was built with a shared library
> > libpython3.?.so and the final binary was dynamically linked against
> > that shared library. This change is about creating the static library
> > and linking the final python3 binary against it,
>
>
> I oppose this change, because this is yet another size increase:
Up to ~27% speed increase for extra ~3.4 MB storage used seems like a good
trade-off to me...
>
>
> > As a negative side effect, when both libpython3.8.so and
> > /usr/bin/python3.8 are installed, the filesystem footprint will be
> > slightly increased (libpython3.8.so on Python 3.8.0, x86_64 is ~3.4M).
>
>
> and while:
>
>
> > OTOH only a very small amount of packages will depend on
> > libpython3.8.so.
>
>
> in practice, that does not help because some of those packages are
> installed by default, e.g., the ones you mentioned being installed by
> default even on the Docker image:
>
>
> > *'''libcomps'''
> > *'''libdnf'''
> > *'''vim'''
>
>
> but there are more, such as gdb, libreoffice, krita, boost, etc. that are
>
> installed on various live images, and calamares, which is popular on
> remixes. So all those images will be bloated as a result of your code
> duplicating change.
>
>
> In addition:
>
>
> > By applying this change, libpython's namespace will be separated from
> > Python's, so '''C extension which are still linked to
libpython'''
> > might experience side effects or break.
>
>
> so compatibility is an issue too.
>
>
> Kevin Kofler
>
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