On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:55:41 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:06, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > And very very slow too, like any other script language. > One thing I learned a *long* time ago is that even an 80286 is faster > than people typing, reading the screen, moving the mouse, getting a > cup of coffee, etc.
I've got to agree there. I recall doing word processing on my Tandy
1000HX and wonder why the hell Word needs 40Mb just to start up.
As for Python being "very, very slow" compared to C I'd like to know who
Alfredo can define something as "very, very slow" compared to something else
when in most cases the difference would be measured in ms. Lemme give a
simple example.
I recently installed sa-exim. As a result I've got this large corpus of
unlearned spam sitting in several directories. I want to sort through it and
send it to ham or spam of sa-learn. After trying to do it with the CLI I gave
up and decided to write a Python app to do it. Enter Saeman (bad, I know).
Saeman is written in Python using wxPython as the base and constructed
with Boa-Constructor. wxPython is mainly a Python wrapper around the
wxWindows libs (or so I have been told) which, in turn, uses GTK 1.x. I'm
running it on a PIII-450 sitting in the closet using TightVNC to export the
display to a old IBM Thinkpad that has a PII-200 in it.
So let me be clear on this. I am using a "very, very slow" scripting
language on a "very, very slow" (by today's standards) machine exporting it
across a "very, very slow" link that is VNC to display it on a "very, very....
very... uh... very slow" laptop. Even with all that inefficiency built into
how I get the work done the application, simplistic as it is, is just as fast,
to me, as any C application running over the same link (like Sylpheed-Claws
here) or indeed any locally run application on the Win2k box VNC is running
on. If that's "very, very slow" I'm perfectly content with that.
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