On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:08 PM, daniel rupis <danielrupistraliza...@yahoo.es> wrote: > Pierpaolo Bernardi <olopierpa@...> writes:
>> Remember to generate an executable, to obtain the maximum speed. > Welcome to Racket v5.3.1. > > > (define (test) > (time (displayln (total-primes 60999))))> > > > >> (test) > 6145 > cpu time: 39170 real time: 39156 gc time: 0 > > Using ubuntu 12.04 and racket This looks like you are testing from inside DrRacket. As I already wrote you should generate an executable and measure that. If you run the test from inside DrRacket, you are measuring DrRacket overhead, which is far from negligible. P. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users