On Feb 19, 4:38 pm, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karlo Lozovina wrote: > > Let's say I have a class with few string properties and few integers, and > > a lot of methods defined for that class. > > > Now if I have hundreds of thousands (or even more) of instances of that > > class - is it more efficient to remove those methods and make them > > separate functions, or it doesn't matter? > > > Thanks... > > It is not noticeably more or less efficient in either memory or > execution speed.
well lucky i wont be designing/creating a new language! > > Both method and function code is compiled and stored once in either the > class name space (for the method) or the module name space (for the > function), and the lookup of either one is a single lookup in the > appropriate name space. > > Actually the method lookup requires one extra step: First look for the > method in the instance (which fails) and then look for it in the class > (which succeeds). But that extra look up is highly optimized and > probably not noticeable. The number of methods/functions may slow things > up, but it will affect either name space equally. > > Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
