I used the hotspot profiler to gain insight on optimization options. The methods show up on on the top of this list seems fairly trivial and does not look like CPU hogger. Nevertheless I optimized it and have 25% performance gain according to hotspot's number.
But the numbers look skeptical. Hotspot claim 71.166 CPU seconds but the actual elapsed time is only 54s. When measuring elapsed time instead of CPU time the performance gain is only 13% with the profiler running and down to 10% when not using the profiler.
Is there something I misunderstood in reading the numbers? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
