Algorithms Library - Asking for Pointers

[Chris Torek]

In article <18fe4afd-569b-4580-a629-50f6c74829e8 at c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>
Travis Parks  <jehugaleahsa at gmail.com> wrote:
>[Someone] commented that the itertools algorithms will perform
>faster than the hand-written ones. Are these algorithms optimized
>internally?

They are written in C, so avoid a lot of CPython interpreter
overhead.  Mileage in Jython, etc., may vary...
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