[racket] Knuth's algorithm S

On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 14:34:05 -0400
Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:

> Manfred Lotz wrote at 03/09/2014 01:13 PM:
> >  There is a certain way the
> > algorithm should be implemented (given at the top of the page).
> >    
> 
> I haven't traced through the algorithm completely (and I have to run
> out the door now), but looks like you might be able to replace the 
> "(vector-copy vec)" with "vec".  (At least for purposes of this 
> benchmark of 100,000 iterations; for a reusable library, you might
> not do it that way, nor the way that rosettacode.org prescribes.)
> 
> On my computer, eliminating that one "vector-copy" from the code
> drops run time down to 0.6 of what it is with your change.  The
> output distribution looks the same to me.
> 

Yes. Here is my current improved version which runs in 0.216 total
which is a big improvement to 0.372 secs.

#lang racket/base

(require racket/function)
(require racket/vector)
 
(define (s-of-n-creator n)
  (let* ([count 0] ; 'i' in the description
         [vec (make-vector n)]) ; store the elts we've seen so far
    (lambda (item)
      (if (< count n)
          ; we're not full, so, kind of boring
          (begin
            (vector-set! vec count item)
            (set! count (+ count 1)))
          ; we've already seen n elts; fun starts
          (begin
            (set! count (+ count 1))
            (when (< (* count (random)) n)
              (vector-set! vec (random n) item))))
      vec)))
 
(define counts (build-vector 10 identity))

(for ([iter (in-range 0 100000)]) ; trials
  (let ([s-of-n (s-of-n-creator 3)]) ; set up the chooser
    (for ([d (in-vector ; iterate over the chosen digits
              (for/last ([digit (in-range 0 10)]) ; loop through the
digits 
                  (s-of-n digit)))]) ; feed them in
      (vector-set! counts d (add1 (vector-ref counts d)))))) 

(for ([d (in-range 0 10)])
  (printf "~a ~a~n" d (vector-ref counts d)))