Andre Engels wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote:
The example I showed was just a toy problem. The real problem is
I expect to call a function many times, and I want to avoid the overhead of
the 'if blah' everytime.
This is a premature optimization. First, make it work. Then (if it
doesn't work fast enough) make it work faster.
Corrolary: When you do make it faster, make it faster where it is slow.
Second corrolary: If making it fast is so important that these two
rules do not apply, Python is not your language of choice.
Addendum: a bad algorithm is bad, whatever language it's written in.
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