Python Performance on Windows

Question

Is Python generally slower on Windows vs. a *nix machine? Python seems to blaze on my Mac OS X machine whereas it seems to run slower on my Window\'s Vista machine

Answer 1

Maybe the python has more depend on a lot of files open (import different modules).

Windows doesn't handle file open as efficiently as Linux.

Or maybe Linux probably have more utilities depend on python and python scripts/modules are more likely to be buffered in the system cache.