Python's [<generator expression>] at least 3x faster than list(<generator expression>)?
问题 It appears that using [] around a generator expression (test1) behaves substantially better than putting it inside of list() (test2). The slowdown isn't there when I simply pass a list into list() for shallow copy (test3). Why is this? Evidence: from timeit import Timer t1 = Timer("test1()", "from __main__ import test1") t2 = Timer("test2()", "from __main__ import test2") t3 = Timer("test3()", "from __main__ import test3") x = [34534534, 23423523, 77645645, 345346] def test1(): [e for e in x]