Re: [pygame] Python and Speed

[Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Mallett wrote:
> Programmers shouldn't have to 
> optimize their inefficiently executed code, the code should just be 
> executed efficiently.

Even if your inefficient algorithm is being executed as fast
as possible, it's still an inefficient algorithm, and you
will run into its limitations with a large enough data set.
Then you will have to find a better algorithm anyway.

Part of the skill of being a good programmer is having
the foresight to see where such performance problems are
likely to turn up further down the track, and choosing
an algorithm at the outset that at least isn't going
to be spectacularly bad.

Doing this saves you work in the long run, since you
spend less time going back and re-coding things.

--
Greg