Message 189993 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

All that being said, I took out some time to get actual numbers, and found my original guesstimate of overhead was incorrect; it's only 3 times slower, not "orders of magnitude". ;-)

And even on a relatively old machine, that 3 times slower amounts to an extra tenth of a microsecond, at least in a hot loop with timeit. So I'll stop being a pain about this now, even though I still think getters are a stinky Java code smell and don't belong in Python anyways. ;-)