-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: > Can I take advantage of this knowledge to optimize
You do the optimization last :-) The first thing you need to do is make sure you have a way of validating you got the correct results. With 25M entries it would be very easy for an optimization to get the wrong results (maybe only one result wrong). Once you can verify the results correctness, write the simplest most readable code possible. Then once your whole program is approaching completion time how long things take to get an idea of where to optimize. For example it is pointless optimizing the loading phase if it only takes 2 minutes out of a 3 hour runtime. Finally you can optimize and always have a way of verifying that the optimizations are correct. You have the original code to document what is supposed to be happening as optimized code tends to get rather obfuscated and unreadable. Roger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklR8mkACgkQmOOfHg372QQvLQCgu6NYNUuhgR06KQunPmIrZ64B +rsAnAgQOKzMdmonF+zIhsX2r/Xg/72Y =LFfW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
