On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Barry Scott wrote: > I helping a friend get up to speed with Python. He has installed the > ActiveState 2.1.1 on a number of machines. All run nice and fast except > for one machine. It is one of group of identical desktop Dual 866MHz PIII > systems with 1G RAM, SCSI hard drive running Windows NT4.0/SP6a. > > Importing getopt, re, sys, string and os takes 7 seconds. Using python -v > just shows a uniform slowness, all files are slow. python -vv he tells me > did not show a particular slow spot. > > His laptop Crusoe 700MHz machine, 192MB, IDE hard drive runs the same > imports in 1.1 seconds. > > I've asked that he checks the python -v output to make sure that the .pyc > files are being loaded and not the .py. > > Any idea what else to check for? This is probably not a good topic for python-dev. However, before I suggest that you take it up on python-list or activepython-feedback, let me suggest you check for virus-checking software. Some versions of Norton AntiVirus slow down file opens drastically. -- David Ascher
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