Python is faster than C
Ville Vainio
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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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