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From: Georg Wagner <Georg.Wagner@ubs.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Grail
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 10:33:32 +0200
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Ron Echeverri wrote:
> 

> That said, Grail disappointed me because it's unbearably slow, and
> seems to have a severe memory leak problem....  the python process
> running Grail grew to about 32M after about maybe an hour of casual
> browsing.  Plus, it can't view JPEG pictures (from what i can
> understand of the code [i'm not python-literate], it's supposed to,
> but it just fails).  I've been meaning to muck with it some more so i
> can report these problems back to the mailing list, but i'ven't had
> the time.  So i'll just stick with N$ 3.01 for now...
> 
> rone
> --
> rone's rules:                                                     Ron Echeverri
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I don't know which version of grail You tested. I know at least that 
there are versions of python using the newest tk-stuff.

There also should be a newer grail version. My version was able to
load JPEG.
-- 
Georg Wagner
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