Fast text display?

[Paul Rubin]

Christopher Subich <spam.csubich+block at block.subich.spam.com> writes:
> Fair enough.  At the moment, the expected user base for the program is
> exactly one, but making it easy has its advantages.  Since you've
> obviously used it yourself, if I end up going with tkinter, are there
> any performance gotchas on text rendering that I should be aware of?

We're just talking about a scrolling text window that has to run at
human reading and typing speeds, right?  It shouldn't be a problem.
I've used the text widget and found it to be fast enough for what I
was doing, though I didn't exactly stress it.