Problem of Readability of Python

[Scott David Daniels]

Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:
> Licheng Fang wrote:
> 
>> This is enlightening. Surely I shouldn't have worried too much about
>> performance before doing some measurement.
> 
> And with that statement you have truly achieved enlightenment.
> Or to put it another way ... performance tuning without profiling is a
> waste of time.

And the performance of a programmer both with and without excessive
early performance tweaking has been measured time and again (we do that
particular experiment _way_ too often).  The early performance tweaking
version loses almost every time.

-Scott