[BangPypers] parsing xml

Umar Shah umar43 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 09:33:23 CEST 2011


+1

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Sidu Ponnappa <lorddaemon at gmail.com>wrote:

> +1.
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Venkatraman S <venkat83 at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> > I am a speed-maniac and crave for speed; so if the assumption is
> >>> > valid, i can vouch for the fact that regexp would be faster and
> neater
> >>> > solution. I have done some speed experiments in past on this (results
> >>> > of which i do not have handy), and i found this.
> >>>
> >>> Premature optimisation is the root of all evil.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I belong to a different school. I think about performance right from the
> >> design dashboards for i think, be it a simple webapp or a financial
> >> application, the choice of your design patterns and techstack goes a
> long
> >> way in a good customer experience. Bulk of my thoughts are reflected in
> here
> >> :
> >> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/performance-is-a-feature.html
> >
> > I agree and I try my best to do the same thing. However, I differentiate
> > between micro optimsations like rewriting parts in C and XML and top
> > level optimisations like good design and the right data structures.
> >
> > The former, I don't do because I get bogged down by the details and end
> > up delivering something that's super fast *really* late. The latter, I
> > do because otherwise, the application is unusable and a bad
> > experience. Also, micro optimising (e.g. replacing DOM parsing with
> > regexps to extract stuff out of an XML message) makes code more brittle
> > which is also a no win for the customer.
> >
> > I end up messing with the former only when I've exhausted all other
> > avenues and *really* need that last drop of juice. This is usually
> > common in games and stuff like that with continous involved user
> > interaction rather than in webapps where it's a little more spaced out.
> >
> > If performance is *this* important to you, why don't you code your
> > entire application in assembly hand crafting it for a certain processor,
> > amount of memory and hard disk platter speed? Why use Python at all? The
> > reason is because Python is "fast enough" for most things. You can get
> > better performance moving to lower level routines but it's often not
> > necessary and the costs it entails are usually not worth it. Better a
> > fast enough stable app than a super fast one that occasionally segfaults
> > and loses data.
> >
> > That's the point I'm trying to make.
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> > --
> > ~noufal
> > http://nibrahim.net.in
> >
> > If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive! -- Samuel
> Goldwyn
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