Straw poll on Python performance (was Re: Python is far from a top performer ...)

[Robert Brewer]

> Do you spend a "significant" amount of time actually
> optimizing your Python applications?  (Significant is
> here defined as "more than five percent of your time",
> which is for example two hours a week in a 40-hour
> work week.)

No, I don't. The big object server I'm working on now for four months
(which actually *has* some performance requirements) has had _one_
optimization round. I noticed some slowness, profiled the problem down
to the DB layer, and solved it by switching my ADO recordset to
read-only. That cut the load time of objects to 1/3 of what it was
before the optimization. All the other operations to get that data laid
out on a web page were insignificant in comparison.

Generally, I tend to "worry" far more about interface design (for both
users and developers) than performance.


Robert Brewer
MIS
Amor Ministries
fumanchu at amor.org