[BRLTTY] Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux
Brian Buhrow
buhrow at nfbcal.org
Thu Apr 17 14:54:52 UTC 2025
I'm not yet familiar with Orca, but to say NVDA is written in python is misleading. Most
of it is in python, but there are core portions which are written in C++. So, yes, I would say
that if Orca is written purely in python, it probably does affect its performance.
-Brian
>But I agree with your general point that the actual source of latency
>should be investigated, and not just assume that it's probably the
>language that is bad. Python by itself won't arbitrarily introduce
>milliseconds of latency. By prioritizing what is important, the
>processing cost can be mitigated. NVDA also is in python, does that hurt
>there?
>
>Samuel
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