[PyKDE] Why is Simon's libqtc.dll so small?

[Phil Thompson]

>===== Original Message From "Markus Gritsch" <gritsch at iue.tuwien.ac.at> =====
>Hi!
>
>Simon, thank you so much for the precompiled 'libqtc.dll'.  After getting
>'qt.py' from PyQt 2.4 it worked out of the box.
>
>Comparing your 'libqtc.dll' to the binary release of PyQt 2.2, I wonder how
>it could be so small.  It seems, that 'libqtc.dll' contains everything
>needed and is only about 2.65 MB in size.  PyQt 2.2 had three separate DLLs,
>namely Qt itself ('qt221.dll' 2.62 MB), the Python bindings ('libqtc.pyd'
>3.46 MB), and sip ('sip.dll' 48 kB), which sums up to 6.12 MB total.
>
>Is libqtc.dll a compressed DLL?  Because it appears to me, that although it
>is much smaller in size, it takes twice as long to start a PyQt program on
>my slow P200 than with the PyQt 2.2 binary release.

You should only be comparing libqtc.dll with libqtc.pyd - still a difference, 
but not as big as you are suggesting.

Phil