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Author	kumaraditya
Recipients	gvanrossum, kumaraditya
Date	2022-02-02.09:08:27
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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This reduces the size of the data segment by 300 KB of the executable because if the modules are deep-frozen then the marshalled frozen data just wastes space. This was inspired by comment by @gvanrossum in #29118 (comment). Note: There is a new option `--deepfreeze-only` in freeze_modules.py to change this behavior, it is on be default to save disk space. # du -s ./python before 27892 ./python # du -s ./python after 27524 ./python

This reduces the size of the data segment by 300 KB of the executable because if the modules are deep-frozen then the marshalled frozen data just wastes space. This was inspired by comment by @gvanrossum in #29118 (comment). Note: There is a new option `--deepfreeze-only` in freeze_modules.py to change this behavior, it is on be default to save disk space.

# du -s ./python before
27892   ./python
# du -s ./python after
27524   ./python

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Date	User	Action	Args
2022-02-02 09:08:27	kumaraditya	set	recipients: + kumaraditya, gvanrossum
2022-02-02 09:08:27	kumaraditya	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
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