Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: > Licheng Fang wrote: > >> This is enlightening. Surely I shouldn't have worried too much about >> performance before doing some measurement. > > And with that statement you have truly achieved enlightenment. > Or to put it another way ... performance tuning without profiling is a > waste of time.
And the performance of a programmer both with and without excessive early performance tweaking has been measured time and again (we do that particular experiment _way_ too often). The early performance tweaking version loses almost every time. -Scott -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
