PEP 255: Simple Generators

Neil Schemenauer nas at python.ca
Sun Jun 24 11:23:50 EDT 2001


Roman Suzi wrote:
> This implementation is cool, but how fast will be recursive generators?
> How large is the overhead to defrost execution frame each time? Will it be
> faster than functional gcomb?

Why don't you write one and we will compare it to Tim's generator
version? :-) I'll stick my neck and speculate that resuming a generator
is measurably faster than calling a function.

  Neil




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