Is this a good way to implement testing

Cecil Westerhof Cecil at decebal.nl
Sun May 3 06:50:37 EDT 2015


Op Sunday 3 May 2015 12:21 CEST schreef Mark Lawrence:

>> That looks very promising. But I use the test to verify the
>> correctness and show the performance. Is that also possible? Or
>> should I split those out.
>>
>
> Get it working correctly and if it's fast enough for your needs then
> job done. If and only if you actually have a performance issue
> profile your code to find the bottlenecks, as gut instinct about
> Python performance is wrong 99.99% of the time.

I'll split them out. One is to verify the correctness, the other is to
show the difference between implementations. For example: even with
memoization the recursive version of fibonacci is much slower as the
iterative version.

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