Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSApplicationMain idiom: wish to standardize

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Friday, Mar 21, 2003, at 23:07 Europe/Amsterdam, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On vrijdag, maa 21, 2003, at 17:33 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
> wrote:
>> Speaking of NSApplicationMain... Does anyone care to offer on opinion 
>> on the enormous amount of time between the call to NSApplicationMain 
>> and the call to awakeFromNib in a simple application? That period of 
>> time takes about 4 seconds of the 5 seconds my application needs to 
>> start up (using a savagely butchered version of PyObjC, 'import 
>> AppKit' would use another 2 seconds if I hadn't build a mini module 
>> that exports all definitions I need from AppKit and Foundation).
>
> Are you using Python from CVS? Python 2.3a2 still had prebinding 
> enabled, which slowed down dynamic loading terribly (see the thread 
> "Slow loading of modules" around 23-Feb-2003 in pythonmac-sig, for the 
> people who weren't in on this).
>
> And if you are using a non-prebinding Python: try using "sample" on 
> python while it is doing it's
> NSApplicationMain dance.

I'm using Python from CVS. I didn't know about 'sample', it looks like 
very usefull tool. Thanks for the hint.

Ronald