benchmark-example.ss
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;;; Time-stamp: <2008-07-29 20:18:53 noel>
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;;; Author: Noel Welsh <noelwelsh@yahoo.com>
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;; Commentary:
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;; This file is used to generate content for the documentation.

#lang scheme/base

(require "benchmark.ss")

(define (factorial n)
  (if (zero? n)
      1
      (* n (factorial (sub1 n)))))

(faster?
 ["factorial" (factorial 2048)]
 ["constant"  5])

(faster*?
 (benchmark-time (factorial 2048))
 (benchmark-time 5)
 #:name1 "factorial"
 #:name2 "constant")