Any ideas about this?

On May 2, 1:44 am, Brian Watkins <wildu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to speed up computing terms of a simple recurrence where
> the terms are computed modulo some value each iteration,
>
> (defn NF-mod-limit [p q limit]
>  (loop [n 0, nf 0, z 0, S 290797]
>        (if (= n (inc q)) nf
>         (recur (inc n)
>                (mod (+ nf (* (mod S p) z)) limit)
>                (mod (inc (* p z)) limit)
>                (mod (* S S) 50515093))))))
>
> So I added in some type hinting,
>
> (defn NF-mod-limit [p q limit]
>  (let [p (long p) q (long q) limit (long limit)]
>  (loop [n (long 0), nf (long 0), z (long 0), S (long 290797)]
>        (if (= n (inc q)) nf
>         (recur (inc n)
>                (long (mod (+ nf (* (long (mod S p)) z)) limit))
>                (long (mod (inc (* p z)) limit))
>                (long (mod (* S S) 50515093)))))))
>
> But it doesn't run any faster.  Also it doesn't work without casting
> to long within the recur.  Is that maybe a problem with mod and
> primitive arithmetic or does this simply not speed up any more in
> Clojure?
>
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