[Python-Dev] Re: Proposed iterator representations (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Fri Apr 9 14:49:07 EDT 2004

Is the representation (of the dynamic object) static?

No, it is dynamic.

Does

it=count(20); it.next(), it.next(); it still print 'count(20)' as it one was but no longer is?

That prints "count(22)".

Raymond

"... as a general rule of thumb, the first time a memory location is accessed incurring a cache miss, it will be at least as expensive as a divide operation, and additional accesses to the same location are roughly free." -- The Software Optimization Cookbook, Intel Press

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