[racket] generator performance

Two hours ago, Patrick Useldinger wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a Python program doing some intensive computing and would
> like to port it to Racket for performance reasons.
> 
> I use a generator in Python which has a very low overhead. While
> writing some test programs, I seem to have an substantial overhead
> on using generators in Racket:
> [...]

IIRC, Python optimizes generators in some ways when possible so when
they're used with loops there's no big overhead.  The racket
generators are implemented with continuations and the cost that comes
with that is unfortunately pretty high.  If you need performance, your
best bet is probably to translate things to `for...' loops if
possible.

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