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by the_mitsuhiko 4678 days ago
Dropbox is written in Python too and the UI is far from sluggish.
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It depends what the interface is doing - if it hasn't got deeply-nested layouts and widgets (like dropbox - it's just menus and simple dialogs), you can get away with it.

If you've got resizable windows with split nested views containing things like column lists or trees, you notice the overhead a lot more.