In article <18fe4afd-569b-4580-a629-50f6c7482...@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> Travis Parks <jehugalea...@gmail.com> wrote: >[Someone] commented that the itertools algorithms will perform >faster than the hand-written ones. Are these algorithms optimized >internally?
They are written in C, so avoid a lot of CPython interpreter overhead. Mileage in Jython, etc., may vary... -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Wind River Systems Intel require I note that my opinions are not those of WRS or Intel Salt Lake City, UT, USA (40°39.22'N, 111°50.29'W) +1 801 277 2603 email: gmail (figure it out) http://web.torek.net/torek/index.html
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