<div dir="ltr">I'm not sure what is happening in Geiser, but DrRacket should definitely not be trusted. Here's the relevant section of the docs (feel free to ask more questions if that's not helping):<div><br></div>
<div> <a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/performance.html">http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/performance.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Robby</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Vlad Kozin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vladilen.kozin@gmail.com" target="_blank">vladilen.kozin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Oh, wow. So I was testing this in Geiser repl in emacs:</div><div>(2467 4631 4088 3934) Where apparently "slower" one wins</div><div><br></div><div>But in DrRacket the result looks plausible:</div>
<div>(8994 1859 1094 865)</div><div><br></div>Does that mean Geiser shouldn't be trusted?<div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Oct 2, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Laurent wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>What values do you get?<br></div>For 4'000 strings (old slow computer), I get:<br>(236 148 84 84)<br>
</div><div>for slow, medium, fast, really fast, which is consistent with Jay's post.<br>
</div><br></div>Laurent<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Vlad Kozin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vladilen.kozin@gmail.com" target="_blank">vladilen.kozin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Mostly a question to Jay McCarthy but I suppose could be interesting to others. Was going over his <a href="http://jeapostrophe.github.io/2013-08-19-reverse-post.html" target="_blank">Reversing strings</a> article. Somehow I get weird performance. Slowest solution turns out fastest, medium, fast and really fast are only marginally different.<div>
<br></div><div>Could anyone have a look <a href="https://github.com/vkz/warm-up" target="_blank">https://github.com/vkz/warm-up</a></div><div>reverse-string.rkt has the solutions</div><div>test-reverse-string.rkt does the performance check</div>
<div>Testing it on 40'000 randomly generated strings 1000 chars each.</div><div><br></div><div>While we're at it, why do we garbage-collect thrice here?</div><div><table style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:nowrap;font-family:monospace;word-spacing:0px" cellspacing="0">
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</tr><tr style="white-space:inherit"><td style="padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:inherit"><span style="font-family:monospace"> </span><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:inherit;color:rgb(132,60,36)">(</span><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:inherit;color:rgb(38,38,128)"><a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/garbagecollection.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._collect-garbage%29%29" style="text-decoration:none;color:blue" target="_blank">collect-garbage</a></span><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:inherit;color:rgb(132,60,36)">)</span><span style="font-family:monospace"> </span><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:inherit;color:rgb(132,60,36)">(</span><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:inherit;color:rgb(38,38,128)"><a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/garbagecollection.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._collect-garbage%29%29" style="text-decoration:none;color:blue" target="_blank">collect-garbage</a></span><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:inherit;color:rgb(132,60,36)">)</span><span style="font-family:monospace"> </span><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:inherit;color:rgb(132,60,36)">(</span><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:inherit;color:rgb(38,38,128)"><a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/garbagecollection.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._collect-garbage%29%29" style="text-decoration:none;color:blue" target="_blank">collect-garbage</a></span><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:inherit;color:rgb(132,60,36)">)</span></td>
</tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div></div><div>---</div><div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Vlad Kozin <<a href="mailto:vladilen.kozin@gmail.com" target="_blank">vladilen.kozin@gmail.com</a>><br>
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