Good stuff. If you're going to indulge the optimization fetish, at least profile first! Corollary: learn to use gprof and/or your language's profiler, it pays o

Good stuff. If you're going to indulge the optimization fetish, at least profile first! Corollary: learn to use gprof and/or your language's profiler, it pays off bigtime. Question. It's been a while since I used them, but what happens when you use cProfile or kernprof in multithreaded / forking code? I vaguely recall wiring up a custom trace event logger via sys.settrace() to work around this.