On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > ... quite frankly I have no sympathy for > the view that CPU cycles are so precious that we mustn't waste them. If > that were the case, Python is the wrong language.
CPU cycles *are* valuable still, though. The efficiency of your code determines how well it scales - but we have to be talking 100tps vs 1000tps here. There needs to be a huge difference for it to be at all significant. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list