7

BACKGROUND: It's important to consider memory usage of applications on ARM computers like the Raspberry Pi. When programming with Python, there are several GUI choices. A couple of the most popular are QT and TK. The Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 are limited by 1-Gbyte RAM, and 32-Gbyte max USB memory storage, per stick. They also have a much slower RISC (ARM) processor compared to popular desktop or laptop computers. Still, it's "enough" to run applications, even many GUI applications at a time if they use conservative programming techniques. I'm figuring that if a user stuck to TK based applications (Python-Tkinter-GUI) with the Raspberry Pi, then there wouldn't be nearly the number of difficulties.

Q: Does anyone have any statistics on this ... by using Tkinter instead of PyQT for GUI program development with the intended user being on a Raspberry Pi version 2 or 3 ...

Performance ratios, programming with Tkinter vs PyQT:

  1. Size of Program in storage
  2. Size of Program executed in RAM
  3. Speed of Application
user12711
  • 693
  • 1
  • 7
  • 21

1 Answers1

1

tkinter based GUI should be smaller on the disk and RAM but has less capabilities and may not suite your needs depending on what you need. tkinter is best for a small, simple gui. it will have no problems running a fair sized document.

littleting1
  • 44
  • 6