wxPython performance

[Chris Liechti]

Andrei Kulakov <ak at silmarill.org> wrote in 
news:slrnafhtdv.407.ak at ak.silmarill.org:
> In article <3CF8E382.3A44F0DA at engcorp.com>, Peter Hansen wrote:
>> Andrei Kulakov wrote:
>>> 
>>>     "hello world" type program from wxPython tutorial takes 6
>>> seconds to start on my cel 366 128mb system (running Debian). Is
...
> . if not too much trouble, could you please try this one 
> (from wxpython tutorial)?
> 
> from wxPython.wx import *
> 
> class MyApp(wxApp):
>     def OnInit(self):
>         frame = wxFrame(NULL, -1, "Hello from wxPython")
>         frame.Show(true)
>         self.SetTopWindow(frame)
>         return true

i changed this to "return false"
 
> app = MyApp(0)
> app.MainLoop()

(2nd time, P3-600 Win32)

$ time python news_wxspeedtest.py
OnInit returned FALSE, exiting...
...
real    0m1.382s
user    0m0.020s
sys     0m0.030s

here the slowest part is loading and initilaizing the interpreter.
i think wx windows slows loading down, especialy the first time, because 
its loading the wx library. on win32 this is about 4MB.

chris

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>