On 12:38 am, alex.gay...@gmail.com wrote:
repeat itself is not slow, it's just that when it's used it iterates
over
it, in RPython (meaning it's not jit'd) which results in a dictionary
lookup
for the next() method at every iteration, which is slowish, list hits a
special case so it doesn' thave that overhead.
Is it time to reimplement repeat in Python then?
Jean-Paul
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