On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:11 PM, zipher <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know. That's because most people have fallen off the path > (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OneTruePath).
You wrote that, didn't you? I recognize that combination of delusional narcissism and curious obsession with Turing machines. > You haven't done it because either others have done it for you (NumPy) or you > simply aren't perfecting anything that needs to scale; i.e. you don't really > need to minimize memory or CPU consumption because you're working with toy > problems relative to the power of most hardware these days. There is such a thing as over-optimization. Given unlimited programmer time, sure, everything might be made to run using the minimum possible time and space. Nobody has unlimited time, though. The job of the programmer is to get the program to run "fast enough" for the needs of the application. Getting it to run faster than it needs to is generally a waste of the programmer's time that could be spent on more valuable tasks. Of course, I say this as somebody who works on a highly scaled user-facing application that will never be "fast enough". :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
