How about:

(defn limited-reduce [f coll n]
   (reduce f (take n coll)))

Rosen

On Sep 18, 10:52 pm, Patrik Fredriksson <patri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Could someone please help me understand why the following causes a
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space for large n:s (100000
> works fine, 1000000 does not).
>
> (def integers (iterate inc 1))
>
> (defn limited-reduce [fn coll n]
>   (loop [c coll i n result 0]
>   (if (zero? i)
>     result
>   (recur
>     (rest c)
>     (dec i)
>     (fn result (first c))))))
>
> (limited-reduce + integers 100000)
>
> Many thanks!
>
> /Patrik

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