[Tutor] How expensive is a function call

[Kalle Svensson]

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[Arthur Siegel]
> My question then is how much am I losing by this?
> Is the call to the outside function that could to avoided
> in most cases expensive?

Difficult to answer, but generally function calls are expensive in
Python.  The only way to find out for sure is to try both and see
which one is faster, and by how much.

> In the helping people to help themselves - I have been
> intimidated from trying to tackle profiling of performance.
> Is anyone aware of a basic tutorial on this topic?

I found chapter 10 of the Python Library Reference helpful.
http://python.org/doc/current/lib/profile.html

Peace,
  Kalle
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Kalle Svensson, http://www.juckapan.org/~kalle/
Student, root and saint in the Church of Emacs.
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