In article <29c74a30-f017-44b5-8a3d-a3c0d6592...@googlegroups.com>, SherjilOzair <sherjiloz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list, > > When it comes to printing things while some computation is being done, there > are 2 extremes. > > 1. printing speed is slower than data-to-print generation speed. In this > case, printing is a bottleneck. Examples: "for i in xrange(2**30): print i". > Without the print, this code would be much faster. > > 2. data-to-print generation speed is slower than printing speed. So, this > case, printing does now slow you down much. Example: for m in matrices: print > m.inverse() # inverse is a time-taking function > > These two cases are pretty easy. But, my question is, how to draw the line? > How do I know that print is slowing me down, and I should probably remove > some of them? Is there a scientific way to do this, rather than just > intuition and guesswork? > > I can clarify, if needed. > Thanks, > Sherjil Ozair The profiler (http://docs.python.org/2/library/profile.html) is your friend. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list