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jeffmcmahan | 3 years ago

No no you're so right. Let's have 500 packages installed to do multiplication. Zero performance impact, I'm sure.

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Dylan16807|3 years ago

You seem sarcastic, but you're saying something very true. The number of packages installed should have basically zero impact on performance. What matters is how much code the program runs, and the only extra code you added was import statements. That won't do much in many situations, and in compiled code it will have zero performance impact. The compile will take longer but you're not even the one that has to compile it.

kevingadd|3 years ago

Dylan is correct. The impact of the packages will be disk space and perhaps startup time, but that's it. The add function gets inlined in basically any runtime environment or compiler, even at O0 most likely.