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Sat Aug 27 01:29:02 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-August/113154.html

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:21 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 27/08/2011 00:08, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>>
>> "M.-A. Lemburg"<mal at egenix.com>  wrote
>>    on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:00:31 +0200:
>>
>>> The good part is that it's based on the re code, the FUD comes
>>> from the fact that the new lib is 380kB larger than the old one
>>> and that's not even counting the generated 500kB of lookup
>>> tables.
>>
>> Well, you have to put the property tables somewhere, somehow.
>> There are various schemes for demand loading them as needed,
>> but I don't know whether those are used.
>>
> FYI, the .pyd for Python v3.2 is 227KB, about half of which is property
> tables.

I wouldn't hold the size of the generated tables against you. :-)

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