Re: [Gimp-user] python-fu vs script-fu

["ugajin talktalk net" <ugajin talktalk net>]

Intersting idea, but running Python interactively before launching GIMP 
does not seem to make a noticeable  difference.

Thanks.

> ----Original Message----
> From: ofnuts gmx com
> Date: 22/03/2016 21:04
> To: <gimp-user-list gnome org>
> Subj: Re: [Gimp-user] python-fu vs script-fu
>
> On 22/03/16 21:34, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> > On 16-03-22 03:04 PM, ugajin talktalk net wrote:
> > > I don't see the difference to be about efficiency. There is 
noticeable
> > > lag when executing python-fu.
> >
> > Script-Fu is always loaded in memory when GIMP starts. For Python 
> > scripts the Python interpreter must be loaded before it can run the 
> > script. The times it takes to load the Python interepreter would be 
> > the lag you are talking about.
>
> Possible. I don't experience such lags but then on a Linux system 
there 
> is always a Python script running somewhere so the interpreter is 
> already loaded, and it's only a matter of initializing a new 
instance. 
> But then on OSX I would expect the interpreter to be kept in the IO 
> buffers, so the lag would be noticeable only on the first execution. 
A 
> good test would be to start an interactive python session before 
> starting Gimp, keep it open while Gimp runs and see if the lag 
remains.
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