I see people frequently say that list comprehensions are special-cased and highly optimized by the compiler, but I did a few experiments recently with `timeit`

I see people frequently say that list comprehensions are special-cased and highly optimized by the compiler, but I did a few experiments recently with `timeit` and found that using `map()` is on the order of 1.5x faster in all the cases I tested. I think that either winds up being faster than a manual for loop, though