What is more efficient?

[Scott David Daniels]

Karlo Lozovina wrote:
> Let's say I have a class with few string properties and few integers, and 
> a lot of methods defined for that class. 
> 
> Now if I have hundreds of thousands (or even more) of instances of that 
> class - is it more efficient to remove those methods and make them 
> separate functions, or it doesn't matter?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
You'd do best to define the instance variable names in __slots__,
and be sure to inherit from object.  The methods don't matter (they
all hang off the class anyway).  The __slots__ will save you one
reference per object for the __dict__.

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--Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels at acm.org