On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Travis Moy <moytra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Surprisingly it looks like (concat coll '(:a)) is faster than (conj coll-v
> :a). That's not really what I would expect; does anybody have a good
> explanation for this? Did I just bork the test somehow, or - I mean,
> obviously concat's pretty fast but I was expecting conj to be on the level.
> In fact, if you convert and then conj it's significantly slower than using
> concat.
>

concat is lazy, so it's not really doing any work until you try to realize
the sequence -- that's why it is so fast.

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