On 01:23 am, benjamin.kap...@case.edu wrote:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:35 PM, sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no>
wrote:
A compiler could easily recognise a statement like
� for i in range(n):
as a simple integer loop. In fact, Cython is able to do this.
but special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although I think PyPy also recognizes this case and makes it as
efficient as using xrange, and does so without breaking any rules.
There *are* _some_ legitimate complaints to be made about the CPython
runtime. :)
Jean-Paul
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