Re: [pygame] pygame performance

[altern <altern2@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi marcelo

performance depends very much on what you do. Using Opengl for the 
rendering speeds up the performance. Knowing about optimising python 
also helps. Check this out
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips

enrike


Marcelo de Moraes Serpa escribió:
> Hello list!
>
> I used to use Blitz Basic to develop games some time ago. Now, I want to 
> play with the wonderful world of game development again. I've found 
> python to be a extremelly elegant, powerful and easy to use language, 
> so, pygame seems to fit perfectly for what I'd like to do. However, I've 
> seen some games made with pygame and found that their overall rendering 
> speed is quite slow if you compare to other languages (Blitz Basic is 
> actually quite fast). Maybe it was an isolated issue but I'd really like 
> to know from more experinced developers on the performance of 
> python/pygame.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marcelo.