On Jun 24, 2005, at 9:53 PM, Phil wrote: > Some folks on the list may remember a thread, from a little more > than a > year ago > (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2004-April.txt.gz), > where I > asked the following question: > > "I'm trying to track down a bug that shows up when I run > BitTorrent for Mac OS 9, and I'm not sure whether it's a problem with > BitTorrent, MacPython, or some combination of both...in BitTorrent, > when > you resume downloading after having stopped (say, to restart your > computer), the > client checks the portion of the file you've already downloaded. > (I assume > it does this to test for corruption and so forth.) Normally, under > Windows > or OS X, this takes just a few minutes. ... > While btdownloadheadless.py is "checking existing file", the MacPython > window normally updates every eight seconds or so, changing the > "percent > done" to reflects how much is left to check. On a file of, say, > 250MB, > that "percent done" changes by an average of 0.1% every update -- > which > means that checking the whole file takes about 8000 seconds, or 2+ > hours. > > However, if you resize the MacPython window by clicking the lower- > right > hand corner, it updates *immediately*. And if you resize the window > constantly, clicking on the lower-right corner over and over again, it > updates nearly as fast as you click it [1] -- at the minimum, you > can get > it to update once per second, which means that it's checking the > file about > eight times as fast as it would otherwise be (at the expense of > your having > to sit there, clicking hundreds of times!). It's still not as fast > as on > Windows, where it takes mere seconds -- but cutting the amount of > time it > takes from 150 minutes, to 20 or fewer, would still be huge.
Sounds like it's probably a bug in MacPython or GUSI maybe.. but unfortunately I don't think anyone is ever going to bother to fix it, since OS9 is not currently a supported platform for Python. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
