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Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic?

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:25 PM, <fronagzen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Again, thanks for all the responses. I'm curious, though, what exactly is
> the rationale for making functions so small? (I've heard that the function
> calling of Python has relatively high overhead?)
>

There is a small overhead, but it makes the code easier to read and
understand. You can look at the function name and get and idea of _what_
the function is doing instead of having to figure out _how_ it is doing it.

Regarding optimization, after you have written your application if you see
performance issues you can surgically optimize the spots that have the
issues and leave most of the code untouched.

To quote Don Knuth, "premature optimization is the root of all evil". Also
the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_optimization makes some
good points.

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Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-13 04:07 -0700
  Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-13 11:43 +0000
  Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? Roland Koebler <r.koebler@yahoo.de> - 2013-07-13 15:56 +0200
  Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? Dave Cook <davecook@nowhere.net> - 2013-07-13 17:40 +0000
  Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com> - 2013-07-13 14:03 -0500
    Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-14 17:24 -0700
    Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-14 17:25 -0700
      Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-07-14 21:02 -0400
        Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-07-14 21:30 -0400
      Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-15 01:44 +0000
  Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? asimjalis@gmail.com - 2013-07-15 10:06 -0700
    Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-15 17:25 -0700
      Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? Owen Marshall <o@owenmarshall.invalid> - 2013-07-16 00:42 +0000
      Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? Asim Jalis <asimjalis@gmail.com> - 2013-07-15 18:02 -0700
      Re: Ideal way to separate GUI and logic? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-16 13:18 +1000

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