David Cournapeau wrote:
It is often claimed that optimization should be done after having found the hotspot, but that does not always apply
It's more that if you *do* have a hotspot, you had better find it and direct your efforts there first. E.g. if there is a hotspot taking 99% of the time, then optimising elsewhere can't possibly improve the overall time by more than 1% at the very most. Once there are no hotspots left, then there may be further spread-out savings to be made. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
