Why is Tkinter for Windows NT much faster?

[Ian Parker]

In article <39A60A63.7B3AB422 at ntlworld.com>, Richard Chamberlain
<richard_chamberlain at ntlworld.com> writes
>Yaniv,
>
>I did mail you to ask to send the .py file to me directly, usenet is
>screwing with the format. I posted it to your my-deja account, I guess
>you don't pick it up.
>
>Richard
>
>yanivk at my-deja.com wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, I am writing a GUI in python using Tkinter. the GUI contains a Text
>> widget, in the Text widget I add about 100 buttons and 100 labels (as
>> embedded windows). The text inside is taged by about 500 tags and some tags
>> are binded to '<Enter>', '<Leave>' events. For some reason, running this
>> application under Windows NT is about 5-10 times faster than running it under
>> AIX. This is a problem for me, since the application needs to run on both OS
>> at the same speed more or less. Does anyone have any idea why is there such a
>> huge difference in the speed? How can it be solved? Best of all, Yaniv.
>> 
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>> Before you buy.

Following up on my previous post, were you able to discount any
difference in hardware performance?

Regards

Ian
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Ian Parker