Python for Large Projects

Ixokai usenet at ixokai.net
Sun May 16 15:44:04 EDT 2004


"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
news:DL6dndD3f71g8jrdRVn_iw at powergate.ca...
> Ixokai wrote:
>
> > There is some concern that if we do this same
> > thing with Python, the performance hit of loading an interpreted
environment
> > over the shared filesystem will be prohibitive. Some basic testing has
made
> > this seem to be the case.
>
> Just focusing on this one point: it doesn't make sense to me that
> this would be the case, and in my experience it is not.  The
> interpreter (python23.dll for example on Win32) is less than 1MB
> and that's basically _tiny_ these days.  We always had a single
> shared instance of Python and never noticed more than a small
> fraction of second delay compared to loading it locally.  This
> was a network with only about fifteen developers as users, and
> 100MBps throughout, but I would think almost any program these
> days is going to be 1MB or more, so I can't see that Python has
> any disadvantage in this area.

These are GUI programs and we've decided to use wxPython, so that may be
adding to it. I will do more testing to see if it was just a fluke the last
time I tried it out. It might have been :)

--Stephen





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