Python for Large Projects

Jorge Godoy godoy at ieee.org
Sun May 16 13:34:05 EDT 2004


On Dom 16 Mai 2004 12:25, john fabiani wrote:

> I'm a newbie so take what I say with a grain of salt!
> In the VFP (visual foxpro) world the runtime environment is loaded on
> the local computer (client) and the program is often loaded on to the
> server.  I'm wondering if there would be any advanage to placing the
> python runtime on the clients along with the standard modules.  Then
> placing the program code on to a server where all the clients/users
> would access the code.  It would seem that the advanage would be that
> program load time would about the same but the excutions would be faster
> because of the local runtime.  Can this even been done?  Would it be
> faster?

If I understood you correctly, this is what we do on our clients. It also
makes it easier to make bugfixes, updates, etc. in our code. 

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