On Nov 17, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > 10 minutes ago, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> >> The bottleneck is format. [...] > > The main bottleneck is using format with "~s" -- it's big enough to > shadow other changes.
Eli is correct. Changing from ~s to ~a makes ALL of our versions almost twice as fast as Neil's. Not using format at all is still the fastest way to go. Functional programming remains better than imperative programming. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users

