Socket performance

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message
<mailman.1097.1279930004.1673.python-list at python.org>, Navkirat Singh wrote:

> I had a question, programming sockets, what are the things that would
> degrade performance and what steps could help in a performance boost?

Remember the old saying, “premature optimization is the root of all evil”.

Have you actually got some code working properly first, before worrying 
about how good or bad its performance is?

-- 
Lawrence
trying not to say “performant” :)