On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:15:56AM +0530, Vishal wrote: > > After having everything in Python now, performance is something people > want > > to look at. Hence these efforts. > > Would you like to explain a bit more on this? Most often with Python > when I have found people speaking about performance and speed, it has > been associated either with incorrect expectations or some kind of > design mistakes which most of us do when we are beginning. > > Your question on tuples vs lists is very corner case with respect to > performance. It should hardly matter for most programs. If it did > matter to you, I would like to know. > > Also, when I mentioned about expectations, it is clearly wrong for us > to expect the performance of C++ in Python. A good comparison should > be Java and I have found interchanging performance differences for > applications in Java and Python. > > > -- > Senthil > ONE LIFE TO LIVE for ALL MY CHILDREN in ANOTHER WORLD all THE DAYS OF OUR > LIVES. > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > >From my experience tuples and lists doesn't really matter. You use tuples when you want immutability, you use lists when you wanna do magic with the stuff..... _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
