ok, thx.  just trying to keep myself to a high standard while learning
this stuff ;)

On Sep 27, 11:12 am, Michael Gardner <gardne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Glen Rubin wrote:
>
> > yes correct.  but i can write a fn to determine the index of the
> > minimum distance in my new list?
>
> > that index applied to my original list will give me the value back.
> > and this still would involve fewer calculations i think.
>
> Do you have a particular reason to be concerned about performance here? Don't 
> worry about it unless profiling tells you it's a bottleneck for your program.
>
> And I doubt it will actually give better performance anyway, even with 
> min-key evaluating f more times than is necessary, because your f is so 
> inexpensive to calculate.

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