I wonder what the reason is behind Dolby Laboratories to do this. How soon before Kodi on windows gets this.
while on his subject, something important and unexpected was uncovered while collecting the scores of single core python results
the python version Kodi on windows is using is 3.8 , from 3.8 to 3.9 their was a massive performance benefit for python.
To illustrate this have a look at the Vero V which is using CPython v.3.9.2 scoring 25,864, while the similar SOC in TOX3 scores 58,304.
the both using similar S905X4 , and other boxes using that chipset are in line with TOX3, I asked the person to rerun and it still came down that much.
After being aware of this Sam from Vero V looked into this and shared this
FWIW, I found some time to backport Python 3.11 to OSMC on Debian Bullseye.
There are indeed performance improvements and they are significant. However there are hard dependencies on Python 3.9 for services like Samba and even DBus. We could adjust these dependencies and things would probably work fine, but there’s a high possibility of introducing breakage or unexpected behaviour. It’s not worth it when Debian Trixie has now hit hard freeze.Once we update to Debian Trixie when it goes stable, OSMC will ship with Python 3.13 by default.
As a result, users should see a significant speedup of add-on performance in the near future.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=376035&pid=3233518#pid3233518
all this time I thought Windows was just slower because it’s more bloated but for part of the stack (python) it’s held back by the python version it’s using. How much will be revealed when Kodi updates to any version above 3.9
You can run this on windows yourself the pystone benchmark.
So I made a thread asking if anyone is aware of the significance of this and a possible time line for an update, it seems no one is and I don’t think they knew it’s that big of a gap? I wonder how long it takes to update, even to 3.9
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=381891&pid=3234410#pid3234410
Hoping it stirs devs using windows to look into this. and I get to test out out the performance increase.
If Kodi basically doubles in speed for addons over night, we also have DV FEL working in future, I wonder if their’ll be some work on stripping down Windows just to run Kodi lol.
How much of this is from microsoft? what if they want start building on their own apps and get Netflix to create one, and have a nice launcher