@bwoodsend many thanks for your reply. I've used the --ondedir approach and it shows improvements, not big difference but better than before. I'll stay with this option.
You are right about the Pi using SD and also about no antiviral software on my Pi. Anyway the performance problems I've experienced happen during execution and not at startup time. Again many thanks for your inputs. On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 4:47:19 AM UTC-3 bwoodsend wrote: > Well --onefile can slow things down a little because it needs to unpack > itself but not by that much. Try switching temporarily to --onedir and > see if/how much difference it makes. If it’s a big difference then I can > think of two possibilities: > > - I/O speed is the bottleneck. Raspberry Pis use and SD card instead > of a built in SSD I believe? > - You have some antiviral software on your Pi which will insist on > sniffing everything in a --onefile build every time it unpacks (which > is every time it runs). > > Number 2 seems unlikely for Linux but it’s very common on Windows and > macOS. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pyinstaller/5edef83d-8f7c-4ab4-8900-e45d01894687n%40googlegroups.com.
