Re: Another win for profiling.

2011-07-29 Thread Alan Meyer
On 07/29/2011 07:46 AM, Roy Smith wrote: It's often said that you shouldn't try to guess what's slow, but use profiling tools to measure what's slow. I had a great example of that yesterday. ... Yes. My first experience of profiling was about 25 years ago. I was experimenting with Borland'

Another win for profiling.

2011-07-29 Thread Roy Smith
It's often said that you shouldn't try to guess what's slow, but use profiling tools to measure what's slow. I had a great example of that yesterday. We have some web server code that does a big database (MongoDB) query and some post-processing of the data in python. It worked fine in testin