Yes, Ofer is basically right, in that pymel's priority has always been ease of use over execution speed. If execution speed is your thing, then pymel probably isn't the right tool for the job.
Having said that, though, I would like to take a look at what can be done to try to speed up pymel at some point... - Paul On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Count Zer0 <[email protected]> wrote: > Well put Ofer. > > IMHO, the speed of coding in PyMEL FAR outweighs the lack of speed in > script execution. 99% of the time, script execution speed is near > instantaneous, so PyMEL is the proper thing to use. > > When you get into lots of mesh iteration and weights stuff, you might > want to go back to maya.cmds or better yet get into Python API calls. > I think that stuff works even faster then MEL or maya.cmds, not as > fast as compiled API, of course. > > Chad confirms this at the bottom of this thread: > http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-833446.html > > -jason > > On Oct 2, 7:36 pm, Ofer Koren <[email protected]> wrote: > > pymel is more about the speed of coding, less about the speed of the > > code... right Paul? > > > > - Oferwww.mrbroken.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Paul Molodowitch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > (err... that should have read 'area', not 'are'...) > > > - Paul > > > > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Molodowitch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > >> For setAttr, it doesn't create a pynode... but the command is wrapped, > so > > >> it will still be slower than the maya.cmds equivalent. > > >> In general, though, speed is one are where PyMel still has a lot of > room > > >> for improvement... > > >> - Paul > > >> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:29 PM, breeder <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > >>> Example: > > >>> import pymel.core as pm > > >>> pm.setAttr("locator1.tx",5) > > > > >>> So , in this example , does pymel use maya.cmds or is actually > > >>> creating PyNode for "locator1" and than setting attribute??? > > > > >>> On Oct 2, 8:16 pm, Jo Jürgens <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> > A node in maya.cmds is just a text string, while in Python it is a > > >>> > PyNode > > >>> > instance. Creating all those instances in PyMel does take time. For > > >>> > operations on large number of items where speed is crucial, I still > > >>> > tend to > > >>> > use maya.cmds. > > > > >>> -- > > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > > > > > -- > > >http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
