Prime number generator

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Jul 10 13:14:30 EDT 2013


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> As promised.  Apologies for the excessive commenting.  As noted, this
> implementation is a recursive generator, which is done so that the
> primes in the sieve can go only up to the square root of the current
> prime, rather than tossing in every prime seen so far.
>


Nice. Comes in at 0.23369310904039478 in my oh-so-scientific
benchmarking, so it's comparable to several of Steven's algorithms.
Runs on Python 3.3 with just the tiny tweak of converting iter.next()
to next(iter).

ChrisA



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