shouldn't list comprehension be faster than for loops?

[sturlamolden]

On 19 Des, 02:28, Ryan Kelly <r... at rfk.id.au> wrote:

> Not so.  If you use the "dis" module to peek at the bytecode generated
> for a list comprehension, you'll see it's very similar to that generated
> for an explicit for-loop.  The byte-code for a call to map is very
> different.

First, you failed to realize that the bytecode is different because
map is doing the work in C.

Second, you did not provide bytecode for the for-loop.