Script component vs GHPython and C# components

[AndersDeleuran]

@Chris37

… potentially offering better performance …

Specifically comparing to GHPython, this is not exactly the case:

Rhino 8 Regression: CPython/IronPython RhinoCommon Performance Is Worse

Hi McNeel, I’ve noticed that CPython scripts will perform substantially worse when implementing RhinoCommon than IronPython (presumably because of Python.NET) . And that the new script editor with IronPython performs slightly worse than GHPython (presumably because of the new editor, since they’re both running 2.7.12 .NETCoreApp). Here’s a quick demonstration making a whole bunch of Point3d within for loops: [2024-02-05 14_54_27-Grasshopper - 230801_ScriptsMillionPoints_00_] 230801_ScriptsMi…

At least when implementing .NET and RhinoCommon. The new CPython script editor appears to be more performant than GHPython when the code is pure Python though. But then there is also this (for me) deal breaker:

Rhino 8 Grasshopper Script Editor - Design Feedback

Hi @eirannejad, it’s really great to see all the new features and edits in the last beta update! I’ll report back with feedback when I get a chance, but for now I found a higher priority functional issue. Basically, the same one I reported back here when GHPython was updated for Rhino 6, where printing to the terminal is much slower than in GHPython and eventually will become unresponsive: Here’s a quick side-by-side, where GHPython allows one to print a million integers and the new script ed…

There are a lot of regression reports in that topic, in general, that might interest you.