On 6 Nov 2006 at 13:16, Also Sprach Tim Bunce:
> And, strangely enough, look_like_number is a carefully crafted piece of
> C code.
I thought it might be.
> - Performance is very hard to predict - so measure it yourself.
> The Benchmark module is one way to do that.
I'll look into it. Though it is fair to say I am splitting the ninth of a
gnats cock with this question.
> - Premature optimization is a bad idea ("root of all evil" blah blah).
I have to disagree with that one.
> Rewrite code for performance if, and only if, there's a measurable
> performance problem with that code - generally there won't be.
heh, you should see some of my code! ;)
Thanks.
John
