adjacent differences with a list comprehension

[Michael Hudson]

"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <me at privacy.net> writes:

> Alex Martelli wrote:
> > I have no idea how or why operator.sub can be faster
> > than int.__sub__ in this case...!
> 
> Perhaps because int.__sub__ returns a wrapper object
> around the underlying function, whereas operator.sub
> provides more direct access to it? Not sure about
> that.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.  ceval.c knows how to call
PyCFunction objects directly, but I guess __int__.__sub__ goes through
the whole tp_call thing.  The latter may also do more type checking;
not sure about that.

Cheers,
M.

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