Why is Tkinter for Windows NT much faster?

[Ian Parker]

In article <39A2D19E.8B67149A at ntlworld.com>, Richard Chamberlain
<richard_chamberlain at ntlworld.com> writes
>Hi Yaniv,
>
>You seem to be having serious difficulties getting anyone's help on this
>- even though you've asked several times. Unfortunately I know nothing
>about AIX but if you post me your code (preferably whittled down) I'll
>be willing to look it over to see if I can find any improvements which
>may make a difference.
>
>Richard
>
>yanivk at my-deja.com wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, I am writing a GUI in python using Tkinter. the GUI contains a Text
>> widget, in the Text widget I add about 100 buttons and 100 labels (as
>> embedded windows). The text inside is taged by about 500 tags and some tags
>> are binded to '<Enter>', '<Leave>' events. For some reason, running this
>> application under Windows NT is about 5-10 times faster than running it under
>> AIX. This is a problem for me, since the application needs to run on both OS
>> at the same speed more or less. Does anyone have any idea why is there such a
>> huge difference in the speed? How can it be solved? Best of all, Yaniv.
>> 
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>> Before you buy.

Forgive me for asking an obvious question, and one that you've probably
already answered in a previous post: have you compared the hardware
performance of Intel against the IBM box?
-- 
Ian Parker