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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:28:13 +1000
Subject: Re: How can I speed up a script that iterates over a large range (600 billion)?
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Anny Mous <b1540457@tyldd.com> wrote:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0prime =3D table[i]
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0del table[i]
>

I don't fully understand your algorithm, but I think these two lines
can be rewritten as:
prime=3Dtable.pop(i)

Interesting algo. A recursive generator, not sure I've seen one of those be=
fore.

ChrisA