print statements and profiling a function slowed performance

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jun 27 21:06:19 EDT 2014


On 28/06/2014 01:12, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's got to count for
>> something, compared to a raw print that has to wait for the I/O to
>> finish.
>
> A raw print basically just tosses some bytes in a stdio buffer (at
> least in Unix-land).
>

Exactly, in Windows land you're talking chalk and cheese when comparing 
logging to printing to a command window.

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Mark Lawrence

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