Is it because you're not using typed racket?
On Aug 24, 2015 6:42 AM, "Rickard Andersson" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed that the `divides?` function from math/number-theory seems to be
> a huge bottleneck for whatever reason.
>
> This seems strange to me, but I figured I'd write to the list to see if
> maybe there are trade-offs made that make sense mostly for big integers or
> something.
>
> Example with (time):
>
> #lang racket/base
>
> (require (only-in math/number-theory divides?))
>
> (define (divisible-by? x d)
>   (= (modulo x d)
>      0))
>
> (module+ main
>   (time
>     (for/sum ([x (in-range 3 500000000)])
>       (if (3 . divides? . x)
>         x
>         0))) ; cpu time: 96257 real time: 96166 gc time: 128
>   (time
>     (for/sum ([x (in-range 3 500000000)])
>       (if (x . divisible-by? . 3)
>         x
>         0))) ; cpu time: 7277 real time: 7266 gc time: 0
>   )
>
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