Category: Planet Python
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Improved Specto startup times
After my post on profiling Specto’s startup, Wout Clymans put on his Hero Hacker Hat and fixed the major problem that was causing Specto to do too much work for nothing. Now, Specto starts in 2 seconds instead of 10 seconds. What happened there? Well, for making sure that we are using the same “internal”…
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Profiling Specto (and whole Python applications in general)
A few months ago (when we still thought we were about to release 0.3 “real soon now” ;), I noticed that Specto is noticeably slow to start up, even on warm starts (when it is not the first time you launch it). It always takes at least 6 seconds to paint the list of watches…
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Knock Clock
Je publie par la présente, en tant que logiciel libre, mon script python de réveille-matin, que j’ai créé au cours du congé de Noël. Le but de ce script est de reproduire l’utilité d’un «vrai» réveille-matin (sur lequel on peut donner des baffes), en utilisant un laptop sans disque dur (seulement un liveCD) et quelques…