Miscellaneous

Is it bad to use lazy evaluation in Python?

Is it bad to use lazy evaluation in Python?

But being lazy here is not necessarily a bad thing, it can improve the efficiency of your code and save plenty of resources. Luckily, Python has silently applied Lazy Evaluation to many built-in functions in order to optimize your code. And I’m sure that you must be familiar with those functions even without being aware of Lazy Evaluation.

Is it true that Python evaluates booleans lazily?

This isn’t technically lazy evaluation, it’s short-circuit boolean expressions. Lazy evaluation has a somewhat different connotation. For example, true lazy evaluation would likely allow this But Python doesn’t. Python is also nice in that it “echos” it’s boolean arguments.

Which is an example of a lazy evaluation?

If you’ve never heard of Lazy Evaluation before, Lazy Evaluation is an evaluation strategy which delays the evaluation of an expression until its value is needed and which also avoids repeated evaluations (From Wikipedia). It’s usually being considered as a strategy to optimize your code. Let’s turn this theory into an example.

How is yield statement used in lazy evaluation?

When the yield statement is executed, the program would suspend the current function execution and returns the yielded value to the caller. This is the key idea of Lazy Evaluation where the value is calculated and returned when the caller is needed and the next value will still be quiet and doing nothing in the program.

What is the API for lazy loading in JavaScript?

Lazy loading is built on top of the Intersection Observer API, which is a browser API that provides a way of detecting or knowing when an element called a target, a parent element, or becomes available or visible inside the browsers viewport, as the case may be. We made a custom demo for . No really. Click here to check it out.

Are there any use cases for lazy loading?

As we continue with this article, we will get to learn more about other use cases in real-life environments.