[Pythonmac-SIG] Speed issues with Applet/Applications?

Sean Hummel hummelsean@mac.com
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:49:07 -0700


So this still doesn't answer my original question.   The problem I am
experiencing is that the application/applet is SUBSTANTIALLY slower than the
Python IDE.  I don't care about about size.

on 6/24/01 1:34 PM, Jack Jansen at jack@oratrix.nl wrote:

> 
> Recently, dave@diddlysquat.f2s.com said:
>> Related to that, does the stand alone application have to be so huge? I mean
>> I 
>> have a 68k resource file and a 136k text file and when built the size is 2.5m
>> b! 
>> Is there any way to make it still work on machines that don't have pythoncore
>> , 
>> yet have it be smaller? Thanks.
> 
> There's a solution, but that's "Buy CodeWarrior, use macfreeze". This
> will result in a binary that is smaller (because all the C extension
> modules that aren't used in your script aren't included) and faster
> (because everything is linked together, in stead of only packaged
> together). It is however also a lot more work than simply dropping the
> script on BuildApplication.
> 
> BuildApplication can't do any better than it does now, because it has
> to include PythonCore as a whole (there's no way to split it up at
> runtime).
> 
> I've been thinking about putting more modules in dynamically loaded
> modules, but even that wouldn't help too much, there's quite a lot
> that would be included anyway.
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