Tim Mitchell wrote:
Hi All,
I work on a desktop application that has been developed using python and
GTK (see www.leapfrog3d.com). We have around 150k lines of python code
(and 200k+ lines of C). We also have a new project manager with a C#
background who has deep concerns about the scalability of python as our
code base continues to grow and we are looking at introducing more
products. I am looking for examples of other people like us (who write
desktop apps in python) with code bases of a similar size who I can
point to (and even better talk to) to help convince him that python is
scalable to 300+ lines of code and beyond. I have looked at the python
success stories page and haven't come up with anyone quite like us. One
of my project managers questions is: "Are we the only company in the
world with this kind and size of project?"
I want to say no, but am having trouble convincing myself, let alone him.
If you are involved in this kind of thing please get in touch with me.
Thanks,
Tim
It is not clear what "scalability" means to a desktop application? When maximum
calculation speeds are required, you can drop into C libraries from Python with
ease. If this is about making use of multiple cores on a machine this link
(http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing) covers most of the solutions
that can be implementing in Python.
Another poster has suggested that you would need 1500K lines of C to replace
300K lines of Python (and he may be being generous to C). Projects are about
more than raw speed: maintainability, speed of adding features, etc. Python
wins those races in most situations. I'm sure that hand coded assembler would
run fastest of all, but little application software is written that way these days.
-Larry
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