[Tutor] Simplicity vs. Speed

[Phil Bertram]

-----Original Message-----
From: Roeland Rengelink <r.b.rigilink@chello.nl>
To: Phil Bertram <phil.bertram@clear.net.nz>
Cc: tutor@python.org <tutor@python.org>
Date: Tuesday, 15 May 2001 11:42
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Simplicity vs. Speed


[snip]
>
>let me add that a nagging feeling that another approach would be more
>elegant/shorter/neater or simply feel better is a perfectly good reason
>to rewrite your code. The nice thing is that if your feeling happens to
>be right, your code will usually become faster too.
>

And of course by re-writing my code I can learn more about programming
Learning programming is after all what I am trying to acheive !

I will rid myself of this idea that code MUST be fast.

You are 100% correct when you say, 'It is of little concern if code takes
1.5 secs compared with 1.0'