Hi, We use Twisted extensively in the IPython project for parallel and distributed computing. We have an extensive test suite that uses trial to test our servers and clients. Everything works great...but...the test suite takes much longer to run on OS X than windows. Here is what I mean:
1. 2.53 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X 10.5. Test suite takes 67 seconds 2. *Same machine*, running Windows XP as VM in VMWare. Test suite takes 17 seconds. I have verified that all the tests are being run on Windows. This is very surprising to me as I would expect, if anything, the Windows VM to be a bit slower, not 3x faster. This is the same hardware, the same code, the only thing that I can think of that is different is the reactor implementation. I am using the default reactor on both platforms. Questions: * Is the Windows reactor really that fast? * Is the default (I think it is select) reactor on OS X really that slow? * Why else would it be that slow on OS X? * What can I do to speed this up? Cheers, Brian _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
