As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.