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print statements and profiling a function slowed performance

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Huh. I learned two new Python facts this week:

1. print statements were slowing down my code enough to
really notice a particular transition. It went from about
2-3 seconds to a bit under 1 second. What at first seemed
unresponsive now seems almost snappy. The only difference
was removing a lot of print statements I had used for
debugging (Python 2.5, on a single core 1.97 Ghz machine).

2. Merely having a cPython decorator for profiling a 
function significantly slowed down performance...again,
from a about 2 seconds to just under a second (~1 second
doesn't seem much but these sorts of delays do affect 
user experience).  There is something ironic or 
Heisenbergian about that.

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print statements and profiling a function slowed performance CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2014-06-26 11:44 -0700
  Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-06-26 13:14 -0600
    Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2014-06-26 13:36 -0700
      Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-27 12:06 +1000
      Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-06-26 19:59 -0600
      Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-06-28 09:41 -0400
      Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-28 23:50 +1000
      Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-06-29 02:14 -0400
      Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-29 17:14 +1000
  Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-26 20:27 +0100
    Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2014-06-26 13:37 -0700
      Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-06-27 02:55 +0000
        Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-27 13:14 +1000
        Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-27 16:55 +0100
        Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-06-27 11:05 -0500
        Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-06-27 15:35 -0600
        Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-06-27 19:12 -0500
        Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-28 10:29 +1000
          Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-28 22:20 +0300
            Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-29 09:30 +1000
            Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-06-28 19:25 -0700
              Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-29 12:32 +1000
        Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-28 02:06 +0100
  Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-06-26 22:11 -0400

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