Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Nothing was dropped from Perl. It seems that the main problem concerning FreeBSD is that Perl was growing quite fast (e.g. more and more features, not needed in the FreeBSD base), and of course, installing an incomplete version of Perl would lead to problems. See <http://kerneltrap.org/node/178>.
Huh. I was curious to see how Python would fair. However the 2.5.1 sources are 52Mb. One of the complaints was that Perl's sources were up to 48Mb. On the other hand Perl 5.8.8 on Debian has an installed size of 13Mb while Python comes in at 9Mb. So seems to be potaeto, potahto.
Wonder if something like lua would work better than either of those? Of course one runs into the problem that lua is very spartan so many common operations would have to be written in C for lua to call.
Hmm, just out of boredom...
dash weighs in at 164kb
bash weighs in at 1.6Mb
zsh comes in at 10.4Mb...
Huh, interesting that zsh comes in at about 1Mb more than Python.
And some further boredom...
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
grey 6452 0.0 0.3 5172 2712 pts/2 S+ 01:19 0:00 python
grey 6457 0.0 0.2 4024 2072 pts/5 Ss 01:19 0:00 /bin/zsh
grey 6456 0.0 0.2 3900 1764 pts/4 S+ 01:19 0:00 sh # bash
grey 6454 0.0 0.1 3788 1176 pts/3 S+ 01:19 0:00 perl
grey 6464 0.0 0.0 1672 480 pts/5 S+ 01:19 0:00 dash
Ok, enough late night random spewage. :)