GUI Frameworks in Python?

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Thu Apr 1 09:38:45 EST 2004


Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message news:<qYCdna1kjd3fBPTdRVn-tw at powergate.ca>...
> 
> 
>>Go figure.  (And as I said this is an AMD 2200 with 512MB RAM, XP Pro.)
> 
> 
> You and all others miss one important number: What a harddisk are you
> using ?
> A notebook with a 4200rpm has a much lower startup time then a
> 7200rpm. It is as strange as a 10 against 2 seconds for the same
> program on WinXP when compiled with Borland instead MS Visual C.

An excellent question...

My hard disk is a "lightning fast" Seagate 120GB 7200 RPM Serial-ATA 
drive with liquid bearings and an 8MB cache...

Clearly it's those liquid bearings that make it so fast. ;-)

-Peter



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