[ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

[Alan Bell]

I use python on the pi all the time, it works just fine for me, but I 
don't do much time critical stuff. Printing to the console is a bit 
slowish, but I do plenty of stuff responding to USB events and flashing 
LEDs attached to the GPIO and stuff like that.
Mostly not desktop applications, just scripts that control things, log 
data to databases, that kind of stuff.
I have also installed OpenERP on the Pi, that is a biggish python based 
server application. It wasn't quick, but neither was it slow enough that 
I didn't manage to install it, (including postGRES) and set up a company 
in it over the course of an evening.

Alan.

On 07/11/13 16:19, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Please add "make Python not suck on Raspberry Pi" to your list of requests.
> Execution time for python is so bad I had to rewrite a number of my tools
> as shell scripts. Since many tools in Ubuntu are based on Python, I expect
> that'll be on your list anyway.
>
> Hopefully that's just an issue with the Raspbian builds and not an inherent
> issue with the processor. :)
>
> Regards,
> Tyler
>
>


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