Python vs TCL

Perry Greenfield perry at stsci.edu
Fri Sep 22 09:52:23 EDT 2000


"Cameron Laird" <claird at starbase.neosoft.com> wrote in message
news:1503C5B56489E600.30DF8EA0C7F652F1.2D064EC2C24B6A0D at lp.airnews.net...
> .
> Whoops!  One of the most certain differences between
> the two is that Tk graphics in the current versions
> are faster than Tkinter's.
>
> Other parts of Python are faster than other parts of
> Tcl.  Still others are slower.
>
> In general, though, if you're going to be moving
> 3D shapes around in graphical space, you will NOT
> choose Tkinter for its speed.
>
But he mentioned that he would be using OpenGL. In that case it may not
be slower at all if he uses OpenGL with togl and Tkinter.

Perry Greenfield




More information about the Python-list mailing list