Speed-up for loops

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Tim Wintle wrote:
> [..] under the hood, cpython does something like this (in psudo-code)
> 
> itterator = xrange(imax)
> while 1:
>   next_attribute = itterator.next
>   try:
>     i = next_attribute()
>   except:
>     break
>   a = a + 10

There is one thing that strikes me here: The code claims that each iteration
there is a lookup of the 'next' field in the iterator. I would expect that
this is looked up once before the loop only.

Can you confirm that or am I misinterpreting your intention here?

Uli

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