COM access sooo slow !?

[kowald at molgen.mpg.de]

Hi everybody,

I'm using win32com.client.Dispatch() to access a COM object (a
database) from Python and in principle is works fine.

However, it is unbelievably slow :-(
It is 70 times slower than a C++ version of the same program !

Is this a well known problem of the Python COM interface or could it be
specific to this special COM object?

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

                Axel