bug#27560: 26.0.50; seq-uniq is slow

[Tino Calancha]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Nicolas Petton wrote:

> Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> writes:
>
> > > Indeed, I will run some benchmarks as well. In your benchmarks, cl-lib
> > > is still much faster than seq-uniq, even if it's not as impressive as
> > > Oleh's benchmark.
> >
> > It looks like I read the benchmark results wrong :)
>
> seq-uniq seems to be much faster than in 2015, while its definition
> basically hasn't changed.  I won't investigate much further as I'm happy
> with then benchmark results.
I am quite amazed with the 27 garbage collections that Oleh found:
>     (benchmark-run (seq-uniq cands 'equal))
>     (5.270219822 27 2.396615401000002)

I might get occasionally 1 gc, tipically 0: 27 demands a double checking.
Tino