[issue18655] GUI apps take long to launch on Windows

2013-08-09 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This tracker is for patching CPython, not Windows or 3rd-party C libraries. Ramchandra is right, Python does not display windows. In the cases you mention, this is done by 3-rd party cross-platform graphics libraries interacting with Windows' native graphics

[issue18655] GUI apps take long to launch on Windows

2013-08-04 Thread netrick
New submission from netrick: On both Python 2 or 3, when you have GUI app (for example something in pygame or pyside or tk), when you launch it on Windows it takes about 4-6 seconds to display the Window for the first run. The next runs are faster, but only untill you reboot the PC. The

[issue18655] GUI apps take long to launch on Windows

2013-08-04 Thread Ramchandra Apte
Ramchandra Apte added the comment: Can you provide a short script that reproduces this problem? AFAIK, Python doesn't display windows, the tcl/pygame libraries' C code creates the windows. -- nosy: +Ramchandra Apte ___ Python tracker

[issue18655] GUI apps take long to launch on Windows

2013-08-04 Thread netrick
netrick added the comment: The simplest way to reproduce it is: 1) Reboot your PC 2) Launch IDLE (pre-installed with Python) 3) Look how long it takes to launch and then compare that with instant launch on Linux -- ___ Python tracker