Python startup seems slow... (NT)

[Mattew]

Recently installed Py1.52 on a Win2K pro  Cell 466.   Suprised to see Tcl/tk
boot  so fast.  and Python taking way longer.
Don't have any explantion


Jason Taylor <jasont at wellmed.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.12f911f129ce00ff989681 at or.news.verio.net...
> > > Under NT, it seems that starting up python to process even
> > > a trivial script is pretty slow.
> >
> > Under all installations of NT, or some specific one that you tried?
Don't
> > laugh <wink>.  One thing to watch out for is fragmentation under NT.
Get a
> > defrag utility (e.g., Diskkeeper Lite is free) and check that out.
>
> First, thanks guys for the help!
>
> I have checked a couple other installs and they *don't* seem to have the
> problem.  So there appears to be something fishy with my machine.  I
> tried all the suggestions posted so far: defragged, kept my machine
> idle, used -S and -X options to trim startup load.  Put python before
> perl in my PATH.  It's a little bit faster but nowhere near what I am
> now seeing from python on other NT machines.
>
> Just to simplify, I uninstalled all the Python packages (Base,
> Win32/com, Tcl) and just installed py152.exe.  No change.  All the
> registry keys look fine, at least the obvious ones I know to check such
> as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Python and the .py association.
>
> I will keep playing with it.  If anyone else has seen this, speak up so
> we can identify commonalities.
>
> Thanks!!
> Jason Taylor
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