[issue43511] tkinter with Tk 8.6.11 is slow on macOS

[Thomas Wamm]

Thomas Wamm <thomaswamm at gmail.com> added the comment:

I ran the bench.py and bench.tcl programs from E. Paine (epaine) on my M1 Mac Mini.  Attached is a commented Terminal transcript.

The tl;dr summary again is that Python 3.10.0a6 arm64 for Apple silicon is 3 to 100 times SLOWER than earlier pythons compiled for Intel x86-64 running with Rosetta2, when doing window operations thru Tcl/Tk.

I have not yet attempted to install any version of Tcl/Tk independent of any Python or Apple build.  I'm still learning slowly.  And I am inspired to re-jig my little TerraLunar graphics program to run with python2.7 arm64.

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Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file49908/results-tkbench.txt

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