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Author	serhiy.storchaka
Recipients	isoschiz, mark.dickinson, meador.inge, pconnell, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, skrah
Date	2013-04-22.11:46:57
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> I'm not against adding useful C tools to itertools, but you may have to convince Raymond ;) C implementation speeds up the benchmark only 1.5x. Granting the fact that this idiom is used in stdlib less than two dozens times (without tests and iobench), I do not think more this is a worthful idea. > I'll take a look, but the question is how complex a C implementation would be. Definitely it will be more complex than for iter_unpack. ;)

> I'm not against adding useful C tools to itertools, but you may have to
convince Raymond ;)

C implementation speeds up the benchmark only 1.5x. Granting the fact that this idiom is used in stdlib less than two dozens times (without tests and iobench), I do not think more this is a worthful idea.

> I'll take a look, but the question is how complex a C implementation
would be.

Definitely it will be more complex than for iter_unpack. ;)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2013-04-22 11:46:58	serhiy.storchaka	set	recipients: + serhiy.storchaka, mark.dickinson, pitrou, skrah, meador.inge, pconnell, isoschiz
2013-04-22 11:46:58	serhiy.storchaka	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
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