Re: [BangPypers] Map vs List comprehensions (was Re: parsing xml)

2011-08-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
> mytimeit.Timeit(f1) >> > '37.91 usec/pass' >> mytimeit.Timeit(f2) >> > '37.50 usec/pass' >> >> Btw (shameless plug) - To clarify, the mytimeit module I am referring to in these posts is my own wrapper over timeit. http://code.activestate.com/recipes/389767-timeit-module-wrapper/ --

[BangPypers] Map vs List comprehensions (was Re: parsing xml)

2011-08-01 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Anand Balachandran Pillai writes: > > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Anand Chitipothu >wrote: > > [...] > > > It is more subtler than that. > > > > List comprehensions are faster than map functions when > > the latter needs to invoke a