Looking at: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=spectralnorm&lang=racket&id=3
I stumbled upon this: ;; the big let improves performance by about 20% (let* () ... various defs...) bizarre... why? And is it still true? BTW, this: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=pidigits&lang=racket&id=2 seems to be measuring gmp performance rather than racket's... ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users