> pmap creates a future for every > element of the sequence you give it, and that is significantly more > computation work (allocating, initializing, and invoking future objects) > than your function that simply returns 1 regardless of the value of its > argument.
Makes perfect sense. Thanks for clarifying this. > I realize your example is probably a practice one intended to try out a > map/reduce style of coding, but you would probably get even further speedup > by using (count file-handle) in place of your reduce call. Yup, just a dummy practice problem. Still a good tip though. Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
