Hey guys, thanks for all the quick replies! In addition to the tips Peter and Stuart gave me above, I also followed some of the hints found under
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips That greatly improved performance from about 3 minutes initially (inner loop about 2000, outer loop about 10000 runs - I think) down to a few seconds. My question on the inline function call was triggered by the 3 minute run on a pretty small statistic (10000 events) Monte Carlo sample. Now, I'm much more relaxed! :) One of the biggest improvements in addition to using psyco was actually being careful about avoiding global namespace lookup. So, thanks again, I learned a great deal about efficient python coding today! :) Cheers, Riko -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
