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This makes sense. So basically if you style your programming such that a list is never materialized you can achieve zero allocation based programming.

However for things like "sorting" this can never fully be achieved. You cannot sort a generator. Every iterator counterpart needs a list counterpart or there will be literally certain computations that are impossible.




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