[Freevo-devel] Re: What skin to use?

[Aubin P. <au...@pu...>]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:22:16AM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> I don't think it's psyco. I navigated a lot yesterday and it's
> definitely faster. A list is a fine thing, but walking through a list
> takes time, copy one element from one list to another takes time,
> accessing dictinaries takes time. It's faster to cache some results in
> a tmp variable and to reduce the number of (redundant) lists and the
> length of each list. And it's faster to use (tuples) and not [lists].

I tried it again (in case you're wondering, Psyco doesn't like the
eval() calls) but it's still too slow to be usable for me. I still
don't understand why. the CPU usage is literally double, and RAM usage
has gone up too.

Aubin