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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:09:41 +1100
Subject: Re: how to avoid checking the same condition repeatedly ?
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Peter Cacioppi
<peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> wrote:
> But this sort of bottleneck refactoring can be done in a careful way that minimizes the damage to readability. And a strength of py is it tends to encourage this "as pretty as possible" approach to bottleneck refactoring.
>
> This is what you're saying, right?

Yep, that's about the size of it. Want some examples of what costs no
clarity to reimplement in another language? Check out the Python
standard library. Some of that is implemented in C (in CPython) and
some in Python, and you can't tell and needn't care which. Code
clarity isn't hurt, because those functions would be named functions
even without.

ChrisA