[Python-ideas] Membership of infinite iterators

[Serhiy Storchaka]

18.10.17 17:48, Nick Coghlan пише:
> 1. It will make those loops slower, due to the extra overhead of 
> checking for signals (even the opcode eval loop includes all sorts of 
> tricks to avoid actually checking for new signals, since doing so is 
> relatively slow)
> 2. It will make those loops harder to maintain, since the high cost of 
> checking for signals means the existing flat loops will need to be 
> replaced with nested ones to reduce the per-iteration cost of the more 
> expensive checks
> 3. It means making the signal checking even harder to reason about than 
> it already is, since even C implemented methods that avoid invoking 
> arbitrary Python code could now still end up checking for signals

I have implemented signals checking for itertools iterators. [1] The 
overhead is insignificant because signals are checked only for every 
0x10000-th item (100-4000 times/sec). The consuming loops are not 
changed because signals are checked on the producer's side.

[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue31815