Alex Martelli wrote: > As you see, static methods have a small extra lookup cost (a couple > hundred nanoseconds on my oldish laptop);
I would've expected the opposite effect...I guess the runtime considers instances more active than the static portion of a class. > "Premature > optimization is the root of all evil in programming", as Knuth wrote > quoting Hoare -- and anybody who's read Knuth's work knows he is > anything BUT indifferent to real optimization; the key is avoiding that > "premature" part!-) Apropos of which someone mentioned in a thread on Slashdot today about writing an entire program's code in Python first and then optimizing portions to C or C++ only as performance warrants. Seems like a good idea. I've noticed Python is a lot easier to get up-and-running with, even if you're as unfamiliar with it as I am, compared to the other two. --Blair -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
