Re: #2 Re: [pygame] python newbie question re. arrays of arrays

[Peter Goode <peterg@castlelink.co.uk>]

Yes... It is also a good intellectual challenge to deliberately find other ways, or
try out other people's ways
of doing things.

I generally try to invent my own way, then read around a bit (if/when it's too bad
done my way) and then
produce different implementations of things until it's achieved some sort of 'best
practice' level.
Very easy to give up comparing own code with other peoples... OS very good for
encouraging sharing/learning.


Python is fab isn't it... I've been doing Perl for about 4 yrs (+bits of Java)

Frank Raiser wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:24:27PM +0100, Peter Goode wrote:
> > As it turned out, the FPS dropped when I changed from dict to array of arrays
> > (possibly 'cos only 10 or so key values but array 200 long... so
> > overhead of testing array is big and similar to dict key lookup).
> While working on YaSS I made the experience that if you want to optimize for
> speed you should always benchmark some possible ways. Of course some ways of
> writing code are obviously slower.. but in cases like this little experiments
> are usually most rewarding.
>
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