Re: [racket-users] Best way to append an element to a list?

Cool, thank you. On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 2:15 PM Sage Gerard wrote: > I get these timings on x86_64 GNU/Linux using the following profile > program. > > ; A: cpu time: 7444 real time: 7445 gc time: > 716 > ; B: cpu time: 9227 real time: 9228 gc time: 884 > > (module profile racket/base > (defi

Re: [racket-users] Best way to append an element to a list?

I get these timings on x86_64 GNU/Linux using the following profile program. ; A: cpu time: 7444 real time: 7445 gc time: 716 ; B: cpu time: 9227 real time: 9228 gc time: 884 (module profile racket/base (define target-length #e5e4) (define (A current-list new-element) (append current-list (list

[racket-users] Best way to append an element to a list?

If I want to add an element to the end of an immutable list, is it better to do: (append current-list (list new-element)) or (reverse (cons new-element (reverse current-list))) or something else? I would imagine it's the first one because that should be a single traversal and link add instead of