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Subject: Re: Why generators take long time?
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swails@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I use generator expressions when
>
> - I *might* want to
>

=E2=80=8BI forgot to finish my thought here.  I use generator expressions w=
hen I
don't want to worry about memory, there's a decent chance of
short-circuiting=E2=80=8B, or I just want to do some simple iteration where=
 the
iterator will not be the bottleneck (which is almost always).

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Jason M. Swails
BioMaPS,
Rutgers University
Postdoctoral Researcher