print statements and profiling a function slowed performance

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> Threading is a focus of so many myths. People who don't understand it
> think that threads are magic pixie dust that fixes everything, or else
> magic pixie dust that breaks everything. Or both, at the same time.
> Neither notion is true.

I'm in the latter camp.

More precisely: threads have their uses but they are used far too much
and not feared nearly enough.


Marko