optimization

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:

> I noticed in some profiling, that it seems that:
>
> def Func ():
>   def something():
>     ...
>
> It appears that if Func is called many times, this nested func
> definition will cause significant overhead.  Is this true?  I guess
> I've become accustomed to decent compilers performing reasonable
> transformations and so have tended to write code for clarity.

If something() can be defined outside Func(), how is it clearer to
define it inside?

-- 
Arnaud