Python is faster than C

Ville Vainio ville at spammers.com
Sun Apr 4 04:18:16 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Armin" == Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> writes:

    Armin> Worse, and more importantly, the optimization starts to
    Armin> become visible to the programmer.  Iterators, for example,
    Armin> are great in limited cases but I consider their
    Armin> introduction a significant complication in the language;
    Armin> before, you could expect that some function from which you
    Armin> would expect a sequence returned a list.  Python was all
    Armin> lists and

Iterators are an optimization? I always considered them just a more
clean and elegant way to do the same thing :-).

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