On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Isn't all of itertools implemented in C? If we are not using a python-level > and not-so-fast __getitem__ I would wager the C version is a lot faster. > > And if the input is indexable could I assume that it is not too large to > have around in memory and thus any speed increase in looping over it would > be tiny?
Oscar's version which is an imap of an xrange is also effectively implemented in C. Only the setup is in Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
