Performance of list comprehensions vs. map

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:17:12 GMT, Paul Winkler <slinkp23 at yahoo.com> pisze:

> So for the foreseeable future, looks like map() is likely to remain
> the fastest way to generate lists.

As long as the function to map is ready. If a separate function must
be created just for mapping (doesn't matter id by 'def' or 'lambda'),
I would expect a list comprehension with the function's body inserted
to be faster than map which must call it.

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