Problem of Readability of Python
Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Sat Oct 13 16:56:56 EDT 2007
Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:
> Licheng Fang wrote:
>
>> This is enlightening. Surely I shouldn't have worried too much about
>> performance before doing some measurement.
>
> And with that statement you have truly achieved enlightenment.
> Or to put it another way ... performance tuning without profiling is a
> waste of time.
And the performance of a programmer both with and without excessive
early performance tweaking has been measured time and again (we do that
particular experiment _way_ too often). The early performance tweaking
version loses almost every time.
-Scott
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