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On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> wrote:
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> You commented that the itertools algorithms will perform faster than
> the hand-written ones. Are these algorithms optimized internally?

For one thing, they are written in C.

Cheers,
Chris