"Jaime Gago" <cont...@jaimegago.com> wrote
When I run it via IDLE it's taking way more time than
if I run it via a (bash) shell (on Os X 10.6) while
doing $>python -d mypp.py
I'm really curious from a performance perspective
as to what could cause such a noticeable difference.
IDLE is a development environment. As such it
adds lots of extra hooks and debugging things
to the execution environment. (For example it
traps things like Ctrl C) In addition, being a GUI
written in Tkinter, it has a slower output mechanism
so print statements will be slower.
IDLE is not intended to be used to run code except
during development, it has ot been built for speed
but for debugging.
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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