Speed with Python

[Moshe Zadka]

On 27 Jun 2000, [ISO-8859-1] François Pinard wrote:

> [Ken Seehof]
> 
> > I do all GUI work in python (wxPython) and I have not noticed a difference
> > in speed as compared to C++, probably because most time is spent in
> > library calls anyway.
> 
> I experimented some GUI writing in Python, and initially expected that things
> would be slow.  Not at all: I was very pleasantly surprised by the speed.

Indeed: in most GUIs, most time is spent in the user's head: IOW, the
computer is too fast, and most time it is just sitting quietly, waiting
for the user to make up his mind. Python's idle loop is almost as good
as C++'s <wink>

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