On Nov 14, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Ken Wesson wrote:

> Interestingly, (= (count v) 0) is relatively fast (900 msec); (seq v)
> is slower (2s); (empty? v) is even slower (3s); and (= v []) is
> slowest (16s).

Strange. Here are the timings I get for 1e8 iterations:

(zero? (count v)): ~3600 msecs
(seq v): ~2300 msecs
(empty? v): ~3100 msecs
(= v []): ~460 msecs

(= 0 (count v)) is even slower than (zero? (count v)). I'm running Clojure 1.2 
on a MacBook (Core 2 Duo, 2GHz).

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