APPENDIX A
Pedal to the Metal: Accelerating Python
Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
— Kent Beck
This appendix is a tiny peek at some of the options for tweaking the constant factors of your implementations. Although this kind of optimization in many cases won’t take the place of proper algorithm design—especially if your problems can grow large—making your program run ten times as fast can indeed be useful.
Before calling for external help, you should make sure you’re using Python’s built-in tools to their full potential. I’ve given you some pointers throughout the book, including the proper uses of list versus deque and how bisect ...
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