Ah -- maybe that foiled my timings too. I didn't expect it to be fast -- just 
clear (at least to this Lisp programmer).

 -Lee

On Apr 5, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Per Vognsen wrote:

> Wow, you're right. The partial laziness of his code was foiling my benchmark.
> 
> -Per
> 
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Mark Engelberg
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On my system, knuth-shuffle performs several times faster than Spector's
>> recursive functional shuffle on smallish lists, and the difference grows
>> even more dramatic as the list grows, which is what I'd expect (since
>> knuth-shuffle is O(n) and shuffle is O(n^2)).
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