Re: [igraph] speeding up the code

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Jun 11, 2009, at 7:54 AM, Tamas Nepusz wrote:

> Hi Marco,
>
> > I have just finished writing some fair complex code in python+igraph
> > and I am now trying to speedup the code.
> > Since I have never done something like this, I am looking for ideas.
> Well, considering that igraph is written in C, the more time you are
> able to spend "inside" igraph function calls, the faster your code  
> will
> be ;) Besides that, I guess it's better to optimize the Python code  
> than
> to rewrite the whole thing in C. Optimizing Python code is tricky,  
> since
> sometimes it goes against common sense if you are not familiar with
> Python's internals. Read these essays as a start:
>
> http://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str.html
> http://www.skymind.com/~ocrow/python_string/

Also see:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips

HTH,
-steve