xrange question

[Michael Hudson]

Greg Ewing <see at my.signature> writes:

> By the way, does anyone know why xrange isn't at least as
> fast in *all* cases? Considering that creating and indexing
> a tuple involves doing everything that creating and indexing
> an xrange object involves, plus more besides, I don't see
> why xrange should ever be slower.

My bet's on the special casing of list[int] in ceval.c.

Cheers,
M.

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