Oct. 21, 2003
5:39 p.m.
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 05:59 pm, Phillip J. Eby wrote: ...
If you make it a list that's lazy, it doesn't lose the memory allocation overhead for the list. If I understand Alex's benchmarks, making a lazy list would end up being *slower* than list comprehension is now.
No, my benchmarks show that NOT having to "incarnate" the list, when all you do is loop on it, is a modest but repeatable win (20%-30% or so). Alex