GUI speed

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Gerhard Häring wrote:

> Gerhard Häring wrote:
>> Rick Richardson wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm currently reviewing technologies for a large, gui intensive
>>> application. We're planning on having a template driven dynamic gui
>>> system, but having written Java gui's in the past I'm concerned that
>>> python may share java's affliction and be slower than molassses in
>>> January.
>>>  
>>> Can anyone out there comment on the relative speed of Java's gui libs
>>> and any one of the python gui libs?
>> 
>> Sure I can. Try it out.
> 
> Ok, that reply was a /little/ short and missing a smiley.
> 
> The GUI tookits I know (wxWindows, PyQt) contain demo programs that
> should show the speed of the GUI tookit quite easily.

In my experience, PyQt, wxWindows and Tkinter Python apps all feel
snappier and more responsive than the Swing apps I've worked with. On
the other hand, Eclipse manages about the same 'feel' as the Python
gui's qua speed.

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