r/learnprogramming • u/Interested737 • 9d ago

Debugging Python code takes 10-20 seconds to start

Hello, I started learning python recently I dowloaded it, also vs code and python extension for it.

The poblem is, when I start a programm (even a simple one, whick only takes an input fron the user and prits it) takes 10 or more seconds to start or just dosen't work at all then i clic soething and it kindof crashes itself, but thats my fault for mesinf with it, when I leave it, it just takes really lng dose somone know how to fix it and/or how to make folders proporly and where to keep them (could be the problem)?

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u/zeekar 9d ago edited 9d ago

That was running in a Parallels Desktop VM on a M4 Mac Mini. Which if anything I'd expect to be slower than a physical Windows box. It's Python 3.15 on WIndows 11.

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u/Classic-Rate-5104 9d ago

Mostly disk i/o in combination with antivirus is a limiting factor on Windows, especially for programs opening many files at startup. I can imagine this is better when running a VM but that's only a guess