From: Luke Ivers <lukeivers@...>
Date: 2007-02-09T06:11:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Help optimizing

Luke Ivers wrote:
>> And, make the string / stream to append to a parameter.  That way you
>> don't need to create potentially large strings during recursion before
>> you append them but you can directly append - you basically just have 
>> one.
>> 
> This one was great: using two functions as I did in one of the earlier 
> emails, however, still provides a significant speed bump over a 
> top-level if-else decision on parent==''.
> 
> I changed the two-function thing to pass the returned string as a param, 
> and re-wrote the original function using exactly your suggestions, 
> giving these benchmarks:
> 
> robert    4.414000   0.000000   4.414000 (  4.461000)
> two-fun   4.088000   0.000000   4.088000 (  4.097000)


Oh, and I used str.concat: should I have used something else?

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