[Python-Dev] nested scopes confusion (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
Tue, 4 Dec 2001 15:41:29 -0500 (EST)

"TH" == Thomas Heller <thomas.heller@ion-tof.com> writes:

But the performance characteristics of class vs. function is really the bottleneck of your application? Are you sure that nested fuctions are really cheaper?

TH> Calling a.test() takes 3.3 microseconds, and c.test() takes 3.16 TH> microseconds.

So I 5% difference, based on a single set of measurements with one compiler/platform/etc., is enough to go out of your way to avoid classes? That seems conceivable for some very small set of applications, but not in general.

Jeremy