[IPython-dev] [matplotlib-devel] [Enthought-Dev] Ctypes based prototype of PyOS_InputHook for wx 2.8 and 2.9

[Ondrej Certik]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Ondrej Certik<ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Robert Kern<rkern at enthought.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 14:48, Brian Granger<ellisonbg.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Michiel,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the ideas.  I have implemented both of the approaches you
>>> describe and I am attaching a file that has all 3 approaches.  At this
>>> point, all 3 approaches work on OS X, Python 2.5 with wx 2.8/2.9.  What I
>>> most need to to find strenuous test cases that can probe which of these has
>>> the best performance?  Robert, could you run the Chaco test again with
>>> approaches 2 and 3 and try tuning the parameters (see the docstrings)?
>>
>> #2 was pretty good out-of-box. #3 was slightly better than #1 but
>> still noticeably chunky. Reducing the sleep down to 0.01 instead of
>> 0.05 made things appreciably smooth. I thought I noticed a tiny bit of
>> chunkiness, but I certainly didn't do a double-blind trial.
>
> Exactly the same observation on Linux. E.g. #1 the slowest, #3 quite
> good, #2 perfect. However:
>
> with #2, if I did copy and paste of some command into the python
> terminal, I could see how ipython was putting the command letter by
> letter on the prompt, e.g. by pasting "inputhook.remove_inputhook()" I
> could literally see:
>
> i
> in
> inp
> inpu
> ...
>
> (everything on one line, e.g. like if there was sleep(0.05) between each letter)
>
> with #1 and #3, pasting was immediate.

so I also reduced the sleep in #3 from 0.05 to 0.01 and then #3 is
absolutely smooth for me and also pasting to ipython is immediate e.g.
this looks like a perfect solution to me.

Ondrej