Generators vs. Functions?

[Neil Schemenauer]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> More precisely, the state of the function is *saved* when a yield 
> occurs, so you certainly don't *recreate* it from scratch, but merely 
> restore the state, and this should definitely be faster than creating it 
> from scratch in the first place.

Right.  Resuming a generator is faster than calling a function.

  Neil