Interesting. We need to review the source and see where we can use this improvement. I think we use the latter almost anywhere already but not sure.
On Friday, 14 September 2012 02:57:11 UTC-5, Dominic wrote: > > I have a couple of case discriminations to reduce a parameter to the > tablename. I found that in gluon, this is often done by simply str(table). > > > But did you know: > > > >>> x = lambda: str(table) > > >>> timeit.Timer(x).timeit() > > 5.487793207168579 > > >>> x = lambda: table._tablename if hasattr(table, "_tablename") else table > > >>> timeit.Timer(x).timeit() > > 0.5015690326690674 > > Regards, > > Dominic > > > --
