Re: final protected private symbol

Chris Angelico wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Stephen R. van den Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The above guidelines would result in the most efficient and compact code.

>- If you've fallen in love with Python's simplicity, ignore all these
>keywords and leave everything public.

>Has anyone benchmarked the various keywords and seen how much
>performance improvement you get? In theory, 'final' at least ought to
>result in faster code, but how much?

Well, for user-level-dime-a-dozen-application-level-code I agree, and
I probably wouldn't care either (unless it's a very tight loop which runs for
a very long time); but when writing library code (e.g. a pgsql driver), it
matters (even if it's only slightly).
-- 
Stephen.