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Python GUIs: Abandoning TkInter and welcoming wxPython?

Gerrit Holl Gerrit.Holl at p98.f112.n480.z2.fidonet.org
Fri Jul 2 12:16:28 EDT 1999 
From: Gerrit Holl <gerrit at humbolt.nl.linux.org>

On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 11:56:10AM +0000, lvirden at cas.org wrote:
> From:	lvirden at cas.org
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Subject: Re: Python GUIs: Abandoning TkInter and welcoming wxPython?
> Date:	2 Jul 1999 11:56:10 GMT
> To:	python-list at python.org
> 
> According to Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at pobox.com>:
> :Well, TkInter is extremely slow, but not because of the Python part.
> :Even the Tk widget tour, included with Tk, is so slow that you almost
> :think "Please, draw the next character - you can do it." whenever a
> :window with some text needs to be redrawn.
> 
> When I run the Tk test suite  on my SPARC, Tk cranks thru creating and
> deleting windows as fast as the eye can track.
> 
> However, there are reports that the Windows version of Tk, because of its
> use of the native window widgets, is noticably slower than the X
> implementation.  Is that the platform to which you refer?

I think you should also say what kind of processor you have if you're
talking about this:

"Windows NT on a Pentium IV 500 MHZ runs over 10 times faster than a
Linux 386 30 MHZ" (is it?)

regards,
Gerrit.
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