Re: Another nil/false proposal

[Tom Wrensch <twrensch@...>]

And then there's the RAM consumption issue.

On Win2000 according to the task manager:

    lua41w3.exe   592K   (Lua 4.1 Work 3 compiled with VC++ 6.0)
    python.exe   1804K   (Python 2.2 Dec 21 version command line)

I like Python, but it is--relatively speaking--a hog.

  - Tom Wrensch

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 nop@nop.com wrote:
> 
> > For starters, there's size.
> >
> > nop@slothrop:~/python1.5-1.5.2.orig$ size python ~/lua/bin/lua
> >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> >  315675   34448    7680  357803   575ab python
> >  102175    2716      32  104923   199db /home/nop/lua/bin/lua
> >
> 
> That was python 1.5. With python 2.2, on my machine (Solaris), I have:
> 
> text    data    bss     dec     hex     filename
> 577232  236608  12464   826304  c9bc0   /local/bin/python
> 83732   25135   884     109751  1acb7   ./lua
> 
> (This is already Lua w3).
> 
> 
> -- Roberto
> 
>