From the "Evil Coder's Guide to Fast Code":
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$ py24 -m timeit -s "floats = map(float, range(1000))" -s"from itertools import starmap, izip" "ints = list(starmap(int, izip(floats)))" 1000 loops, best of 3: 343 usec per loop
Truly evil. Why is that faster than "ints = list(imap(int, floats))"? It is on my system. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
