[Python-ideas] Membership of infinite iterators

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
​Nice! Though I'd really like a general ​solution that other code can
easily adopt, even third-party extension libraries.

-- Koos


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