Neal> I noticed in some profiling, that it seems that:
Neal> def Func ():
Neal> def something():
Neal> ...
Neal> It appears that if Func is called many times, this nested func
Neal> definition will cause significant overhead. Is this true? I
Neal> guess I've become accustomed to decent compilers performing
Neal> reasonable transformations and so have tended to write code for
Neal> clarity.
It could. OTOH, the code object which implements the something body is
stored as a local var (or a constant, can't remember off the top of my
head), so it's not compiled over and over again.
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