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in reply to Re^2: Efficiency of map vs. more verbose basic/fundamental code
in thread Efficiency of map vs. more verbose basic/fundamental code

Still, I'm having trouble seeing why turning a standard for loop into a statement modifier cuts down on the memory usage.

I didn't suggest it did.

Only that it reduced the memory requirement compared to the map variant; and sourcecode/mindspace compared to the standard for loop.


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