[Tutor] Efficiency and speed
Stefan Behnel
stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sat Mar 20 07:51:50 CET 2010
James Reynolds, 19.03.2010 21:17:
> Here's another idea I had. I thought this would be slower than then the
> previous algorithm because it has another for loop and another while loop. I
> read that the overhead of such loops is high, so I have been trying to avoid
> using them where possible.
Premature optimisation is the source of all evil.
> def mcrange_gen(self, sample):
> nx2 = self.nx1
> for q in sample:
> for a in nx2:
> while a> q:
> pass
Looks like an infinite loop to me.
Stefan
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