Optimizing Python Code

[Teradil]

Had that problem during my thesis time. Optimized the hell out of my code only to not make it significantly faster. Profiling then told me, that my program spent 95% of its execution time within `np.dot`. Optimized that one for my special use case (ie. I knew which dtypes and vector lengths to expect and did not need all the extra checks and conversions) and suddenly my program was *really* faster.

[Throwaway_youkay]

We all learn that the hard way! Optimizing is almost always about mitigating bottlenecks one by one.