[Baypiggies] Question about breaking out of a loop

[Dirk Bergstrom]

On 06/07/2011 12:40 PM, Hy Carrinski wrote:
> There is generator that yields tuples in a defined order into a loop
> that performs a calculation. I would like to provide an option to stop
> the calculation when the threshold is reached.
> The function in version 3 is pretty close to my current solution, but
> the functions combinations(), f() and g() are standing in for more
> computationally intensive functions.

This seems like a perfect example of premature optimization.  You've got 
a loop with two computationally intensive operations per cycle, and 
you're worried about optimizing away a single if-equals check per cycle. 
  Will that single if statement really make so much difference once you 
put the real (and presumably much more time consuming) functions in place?

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