Re: Algorithms Library - Asking for Pointers

From	Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Algorithms Library - Asking for Pointers
Date	2011-09-03 04:35 +0000
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Travis Parks  <jehugaleahsa@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...
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Algorithms Library - Asking for Pointers Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 09:59 -0700
  Re: Algorithms Library - Asking for Pointers Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 14:09 -0600
    Re: Algorithms Library - Asking for Pointers Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 15:49 -0700
      Re: Algorithms Library - Asking for Pointers Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 18:39 -0700
        Re: Algorithms Library - Asking for Pointers Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-09-02 19:23 -0700
        Re: Algorithms Library - Asking for Pointers Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-09-03 04:35 +0000
          Re: Algorithms Library - Asking for Pointers Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-03 20:35 -0700

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