On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Mark H. Harris <harrismh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Py3.3.4 and the latest Active TCL are stable on OSX 10.6 or higher. I have > been very pleased with IDLE on both Gnu/Linux and OSX ( I refuse to use > Windows ever again, ever) and my latest experience has been fabulous, really. > My hat is off to the folks that have made IDLE the simple stable and > powerful IDE that it is. I am being genuine about this. > > Another reason for using Gnu/Linux (and/or OSX) is that generally they are > faster. Faster loading, and faster running. Serious. I have been hearing > of (4) second import times for decimal, for instance. Its almost > instantaneous on Gnu/Linux, or OSX. Also, run times are considerably faster. > That has less to do with the Windows version of python, and more to do with > the Windows version. YMMV >
The point of this thread isn't really about Windows, so I'll try to keep it brief, but there are a couple of things I should clarify. The first one is about the 4+ second import time for decimal. I cited that, recently, and comparing that with "almost instantaneous" on Debian (which is what I experience) isn't entirely fair, because it's more about cold cache versus warm cache. (When I shut down IDLE and fire it up again, I get sub-second import time. Not as fast as the "so quick as to be immeasurable" that my Debian box gave, but still quicker than the 4ish second cold cache.) Actually, I do find that my Linux boxes manage their disk caches far better than my Windows boxes do. Not sure if that's Linux versus Windows, or the ext3/4 versus NTFS file system drivers, or something else, but a warm cache on any of my Linux boxes gives a *huge* advantage, and my Windows boxes still show it a bit slower. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
