On 17-02-18 21:11, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 1:47 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:32 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> You'd be surprised how rarely that kind of performance even matters. >>> The author of that article cites C# as a superior language, but in the >>> rewrite from C# to Python (the same one I mentioned in the other >>> post), I sped the program up incredibly. Part of that is because C# >>> requires the startup of its framework (in my case that's Mono) just as >>> Python does, and partly it's because the simplicity of Python let me >>> eliminate a number of unnecessary HTTP requests. Trust me, your choice >>> of language doesn't help you if it means you do three (sequential) >>> HTTP requests when one would have done. Clean code has its own >>> advantages. >> Okay, I'm curious. How did C# force you to make extra HTTP requests >> that were no longer necessary when you rewrote in Python? > It didn't *force* those requests to be made, but the code was so large > and convoluted that I doubt its original author realized that the > requests were being repeated. Pseudo-coded:
But was that a reflection on C# or on the original author? -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
