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by masklinn 5182 days ago
> but really boring to type in almost all `for` statements.

Use _.each, you're done. Pleasure.

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Except that if you're, say, performing nested iteration, you end up creating a whole crapload of closures, ballooning up memory usage and punishing the GC.

A quick test show that coffeescript's iterator is about three times faster. http://pastie.org/3783184

Underscore's nice, but I really like Coffeescript's iterator sugar.

But performance