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On 9/3/2012 2:15 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
> At least users of wide builds will see a decrease in memory use:

Everyone saves because everyone uses large parts of the stdlib. When 3.3 
start up in a Windows console, there are 56 modules in sys.modules. With 
Idle, there are over 130. All the identifiers, all the global, local, 
and attribute names are present as ascii-only strings. Now multiply that 
by some reasonable average, keeping in mind that __builtins__ alone has 
148 names.

Former narrow build users gain less space but also gain the elimination 
of buggy behavior.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy