inheriting a large python code base

[Rita]

when I do profiling is it possible to find out if I am spending a lot of
time in type conversion?
it seems I am not. Also, is it possible to predeclare a type in python?
Similar to C: int i=0;




On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, February 16, 2014 4:45:04 AM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
> > In article Cameron Simpson  wrote:
>
> > > On 15Feb2014 12:10, Rita wrote:
> > > > i just inherited a large python code base and I would like to
> optimize the
> > > > code (run faster). The application is a scientific application so I
> really
> > > > don't understand the internal logic.
> > > [...]
> > > One thing I would keep in mind is that scientific applications
> > > generally involve floating point math. That is subject to loss of
> > > precision if done the wrong way.
>
> > Another thing to keep in mind is that scientific applications are often
> > written by {physicists, chemists, astronomers, etc} who have no clue
> > about how floating point math, or indeed much of anything about
> > computers, works :-)
>
> Not exactly my experience.
> Most of the {physicists, chemists, astronomers, etc}s I know grok
> floating point better than Ive been able to do in 30 years.
> They dont get much else though! -- Usually called 'Fortran programmers'.
>
> The guy who taught me numerical analysis -- a brilliant chemist -- could
> never understand why anyone should want to use anything other than Fortran.
> And it was a self-evident God's truth that a variable starting with
> I-N was integer Rest real.
> Declarations??  Pshaw! Sissy stuff!
> "I *IS* an integer and no hanky-panky about it"
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