Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed
- From: James Henstridge <james daa com au>
- To: Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com>
- Cc: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>, Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>, Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:14:54 +0800 (WST)
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> On 03/22/01 James Henstridge wrote:
> > Just out of interest, are those times for startup only, or startup and
> > shutdown?
>
> They were measured with time python testfile.py, so yes, they
> include shutdown time. Adding an exit call after the gtk import
> improves things a little bit (0.715 -> 0.670 on the same setup).
> BTW: I just checked the python modules were actually precompiled
> and they are (if I delete the .py[co] files times get much worse,
> I wish precompiling perl code could get the same 4x speed
> improvements:-).
Well, the .pyc files aren't exactly precompiled python files -- they are
the a serialisation of the parse tree. They still need to be
interpreted. The creation of all the python objects defined in gtk.py
probably accounts for a fair amount of the startup time. This should be a
lot better in head.
James.
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