> > What follows from that? To me, the natural conclusion is "people who > > witness performance problems just need to despair, or accept them, as > > they can't do anything about it", however, I don't think this is the > > conclusion that you had in mind. > > > > I can say with complete certainty that of the 20+ programmers I've had > working for me, many who have used Python for 3+ years, not a single one > would think to question the garbage collector if they observed the kind of > quadratic time complexity I've demonstrated. This is not because they are > stupid, but because they have only a vague idea that Python even has a > garbage collector, never mind that it could be behaving badly for such > innocuous looking code.
Perhaps this is something documentation could help. I'm thinking of a one-page checklist listing places they might look for performance problems, that your programmers could work through. Bill _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
