[racket] Mutable state vs RAM on fire

Your version works far better than my original, functional version.
It can multiply 300 polynomials of degree 6 without issue.
It's about 1/3 as fast as my dirty, mutable version, for numbers that great.


tk


On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:09:02PM +0200, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
> I believe the problem is the representation, you have chosen
> for polynomials in the first program.
> 
> I am interested in hearing if the following representation gives a
> better results:
> 
> #lang racket
> (require (only-in srfi/1 span))
> 
> ;;;
> ;;; Dense polynomials represented as lists.
> ;;;
> 

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