On May 3, 12:38 am, bOR_ <boris.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> user> (time (dotimes [i 100000] (contribmath-ceil (rand))))                
>
> "Elapsed time: 4500.530303 msecs"                                          
>
> nil                                                                        
>
> user> (time (dotimes [i 100000] (contribgenericmath-ceil (rand))))          
>
> "Elapsed time: 44.707193 msecs"                                            
>
> nil                                                                        
>
> user> (time (dotimes [i 100000] (incanterprocessing-ceil (rand))))          
>
> "Elapsed time: 38.322599 msecs"                                            
>
> nil                                                                        
>
> user> (time (dotimes [i 100000] (inc (int (rand)))))                


That's a terrible ceil method: (inc (int 0)) is 1. The reason it's
fast is that (int x) is a java primitive. It acts like the *floor*
function, making it not useful to you.

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