Tkinter vs PyGTK

Paul Rubin http
Wed Apr 12 04:03:43 EDT 2006


"Ravi Teja" <webraviteja at gmail.com> writes:
> Speed is not the main concern. You won't notice any speed differences
> in a small application like that.

That's wishful thinking--even a totally trivial tkinter program has
noticable startup delay:

    >>> from Tkinter import *
    >>> a=Tk()

takes several seconds if the page cache isn't preloaded.  I doubt
PyGTK is any faster, though.



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