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Re: print statements and profiling a function slowed performance

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On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, June 29, 2014 12:50:19 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> > Threading is a focus of so many myths. People who don't understand it
>> > think that threads are magic pixie dust that fixes everything, or else
>> > magic pixie dust that breaks everything. Or both, at the same time.
>> > Neither notion is true.
>
>> I'm in the latter camp.
>
>> More precisely: threads have their uses but they are used far too much
>> and not feared nearly enough.
>
> Third Camp:
> Since both views are true:
>
> Chris: Threads solve a large class of important problems
> Marko: Threads are horribly error prone

Not strictly my view. I said that both extremes ("threads fix
everything" and "threads break everything") are quite wrong; the truth
is that threading is a tool, like any other, and you have to know when
it's appropriate to use each tool.

ChrisA

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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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