On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:29 AM, S.Selvam Siva <s.selvams...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a small query, > > Consider there is a task A which i want to perform. > > > > To perform it ,i have two option. > > 1)Writing a small piece of code(approx. 50 lines) as efficient as > possible. > > 2)import a suitable module to perform task A. > > > > > > I am eager to know,which method will produce best performance? > > A. Your question seems much too vague to answer. > B. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. In all likelihood, > the time taken by the `import` will be absolutely trivial compared to > the rest of the script, so don't bother micro-optimizing ahead of > time; write readable code first, then worry about optimization once > it's working perfectly. > > Cheers, > Chris > -- > Follow the path of the Iguana... > http://rebertia.com Thank you Chris, I faced a optimization problem as follow, For fuzzy string comparison initially i used 15 lines of code which compares a word with 29,000 words in a list .For each set of words compared, the 15-line code produce number of differences characters of the two words. But when i used python-levenshtein module for same reason it has run faster than the old method.This invoked me to raise that query. Now i understood that, it is not an issue of importing the module/writing the code, but the problem must be with my 15-line code. -- Yours, S.Selvam
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