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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:55:24 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: Paulo da Silva <psdasilva@netcabo.pt>
Subject: Re: Iterate from 2nd element of a huge list
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On 01Feb2012 03:34, Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a@netcabo.pt> wrote:
| Em 01-02-2012 03:16, Paulo da Silva escreveu:
| > I think iter is nice for what I need.
| > Thank you very much to all who responded.
| 
| BTW, iter seems faster than iterating thru mylist[1:]!

I would hope the difference can be attributed to the cost of copying
mylist[1:]. Do your timings suggest this? (Remembering also that for
most benchmarking you need to run things many times unless the effect
is quite large).

Cheers,
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