On 2013-07-29, Joshua Landau <jos...@landau.ws> wrote: > Sure, just as one light is no brighter or dimmer than another > when disregarding luminosity. > > As people have said, it improves diffs as well. It flows > quicker into the "from module import things" form (which I oft > prefer), too. > > When asking these questions, ask yourself "why would it > *compile* differently? It wouldn't. Plus, premature > optimisation is the root of all evil. > > 1) Write your code > 2) If it's slow: > 2a) Do you have time? If so: > 2b) Is it important to speed up, or is the slowness not worth spending the > hours fixing? > 2c) Profile it to see what's actually slow > 2d) Realise that the slow part is not what you thought it was > 2e) Fix the bit that's slow (and nothing else) > 2f) Repeat from 2 > 3) Write some more code
1a) Does it work? 1b) Can you prove it? It's best to at least have some regression tests before you start refactoring and optimizing. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
