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

[Tyler J. Wagner]

Alan,

I notice that python startup is unacceptably slow. Perhaps once the program
is running, it's better. For instance, using python to gather data for
snmpd is even an option, as it takes 2-3 seconds to run a simple subprocess
call. Bash does the same almost instantly.

Regards,
Tyler

On 2013-11-07 20:51, Alan Bell wrote:
> 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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