Re: [orca-list] Misteries of low performance of Orca and distros

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Quite probably.  However, I guess Joannie would need to be the one to
determine if Orca has been written in such a manner so as to be able to do
that without significant and time-consuming code rewrite.  

This has been an extremely interesting and informative thread.

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: Krishnakant Mane [mailto:krmane gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:13 PM
To: Alex Midence
Cc: 'Thomas Ward'; 'orca-list'
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Misteries of low performance of Orca and distros

) can still be in Python to maintain consistency (and also save time ) while
we get performance boosts.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

Well then,
The best thing Orca can do is to have some Python C api so that some code
can be written in c and still executed using Python/ This way the interfaces
to run the code (aka handlers On 07/30/2013 11:17 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> This link is to the readme file for the NVDA source code.  If you will 
> note, one of the dependencies is the boost c++ library version 1.74.  
> Yes, the primary language NVDA is written in is Python.  However, 
> there are some areas where "lightning fast" performance was a must 
> that had to be written in c++.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/nvaccess/nvda
>
> For the record, I was merely speculating on the effect of making a 
> screen reader using a compiled language over an interpreted one.  It 
> was just a guess.  This is the most discernible difference from my
perspective with my
> admittedly limited grasp of the underlying factors.   I'm sure there are
> many other factors at play though.
>
> Regards,
> Alex M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of 
> Thomas Ward
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:57 AM
> To: orca-list
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Misteries of low performance of Orca and 
> distros
>
> Hi,
>
> And I might add that Python 3 seems to run faster than Python 2.7 and 
> earlier. As I indicated in my prior post I don't believe the problem 
> is a simple as a Python verses C++ issue as Alex indicated in his post.
>
>
> On 7/30/13, Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com> wrote:
> > NVDA is in Python, which is by the way, very fast.
> > JAWS has a script language as I hear, meaning that to must be semi 
> > compiled.
> > The problem is not that simple.
> > happy hacking.
> > Krishnakant.
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