Re: Compiling C++ modules

[Dave Neuer]

On 4/28/06, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> > If your time is bounded, your Python code might be running while you're
> > still typing in your C code, you're be profiling and making changes to
> > the alghorithm in Python while hunting for that mysterious segmentation
> > fault in C (thank goodness for valgrind), and adding multithreading to
> > the third and final version of your Python code while debating whether
> > to buy more memory or sit down and chase that memory leak.
> >
> > Developer performance equates to runtime performance.
> >
>
> Read what you wrote! It's absolutely, incredibly stupid!
>
> The cost in developer time is borne once. The cost of performance
> is borne every time you run the application.

The cost in developer time is borne every time someone needs to modify the code.

Dave
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