Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Of course I realise the modern mantra that "premature optimisation is > the root of all evil" but I don't subscribe to it. Programmers have been > "encouraged" to not give a toss about efficiency and the outcome is all > too apparent - most software today looks and runs like a pile of crap. Many people write code that is very obviously "wrong". But that doesn't mean that labouring for hours over minor speed-ups is actually worthwile for people who don't, as a rule, do gratuitously "wrong" stuff in the first place. There is, of course, a trade-off between programmer time and run time. It's hard to know where the correct balance lies for each particular program. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
