Wolfgang Keller wrote: >If this is actually also true in the general case, and not due to eventual >non-representativeness of the test mentioned above, is it simply due to a >less-than-optimum implementation of generators in the current Pyython >interpreter and thus likely to change in the future or is this a matter of >principle and will consequently remain like this forever? > >
I am not a CPython or PyPy hacker, but I would guess that it will always be slower as a matter of principal. When resuming a generator you have to resetup the state the function was in when it was last called, which I think should always be more costly than calling the function with a clean state. Someone want to correct me? Whether or not the difference is that significant though I am unsure. It may be small enough that for most applications no one cares. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
