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Yes, I understood that there is logic error after my own exploration. I fixed this.

It's a pity, but I failed to test MCSV2008 build.

EDIT: I've downloaded VC2008 redist and after that it worked. Result was the same as for mingw build.

Also I found that the problem is not only in performance. Simulation is not as accurate as in c++ program. When I load Pyramid test in testbed with same options (enablePositionCorrection, enableWarmStarting, enableTOI, deltaT = 1/60.0, iterations = 10) it all objects begin to sleep very soon, but in python they move slightly and pyramid falls (look at the screenshot).

This might the bug with needing to have a contact listener for warm starting to work. This is fixed in SVN.

Yes. I added contact listener and it worked.

I updated my python mini TestBed.
Now it can draw everything. Also test can react on keyboard input. And test is in seperate module from framework. For now only one test at one time is supported, it should be located in 'mytest.py' file.
I'm going to improve it, but this version is already usable.

Nice work, roman_m. Looking good.

Here's the first version of the wrapper for 2.0.1:

Python Bindings 2.0.1r1 --
Usage here on the wiki: http://www.box2d.org/wiki/index.php?tit ... ith_Python
Download here: http://pybox2d.googlepages.com/

As it mentions on the page, let me know if any of you see a difference with the MSVC version -- perhaps the changes Erin made to the solution sped it up a bit? If not, the MinGW builds are faster and more convenient for me, so I'll stop making the MSVC builds.

I do not see any difference between mingw and MSVC build.
Performance is still bad.

In new release SetListener does not work. May be this is because of changes in box2d itself, but then, there is an error in wiki.
Also something changed with s_enablePositionCorrection, s_enableWarmStarting, s_enableTOI.

I quick updated test framework to work with new release. No other changes were made.

Sorry, I didn't update the wiki as completely as I should have. These changes should have been apparent if you read the Box2D 2.0.1 updates, however.

SetListener is now Set*Listener (for the contact listener, SetContactListener).
Look a bit further and you'll see that the previously static variables (s_enableTOI/etc) have now become these functions:


So, world.SetWarmStarting(True) and so on instead of your cvars.s_enableWarmStarting = True .

In my own tests, the python code hasn't been terribly slow. It's perfectly usable, in my opinion.

hey,

here python code is actually running quite quick -- even on "lower performance machines" like the olpc xo laptop with 433 mhz and 256 mb ram.
see for example speed tests on the xo laptop and the elements project.

best,
- chris

May be the slowdown is because of DebugDraw and it's callbacks... I'll try to implement drawing without debugdraw.

In case you haven't seen it yet, I've ported the Box2D testbed and tests to Python:
http://www.box2d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=791 (Game and Applications forum)

There's also what will now be the standard Win32 installer there to make the process easier.
I also moved the homepage to code.google.com and released 2.0.1b2 here:
http://code.google.com/p/pybox2d/